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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is wrong with Harry's owl?
(a) It is hungry.
(b) It ate a sickly cat.
(c) It hates Dudley.
(d) It wants out of its cage.

2. What does Gilderoy Lockhart let go in the class room and leave the students to catch?
(a) Garden gnomes
(b) Puppies
(c) Cornish pixies
(d) Enchanted spiders

3. Who shows up outside Harry's window after Harry has been locked in his room?
(a) Dumbledore
(b) Ron Weasley
(c) Hermione
(d) Dobby

4. What happens when Ron and Harry try to get to Platform Nine and Three-Quarters?
(a) They get on the wrong train.
(b) They dissapear into another dimension.
(c) They end up in a different city.
(d) They crash into the wall.

5. What does Harry find wrong with his bed when he gets to his room?
(a) The bed is broken.
(b) It hasn't been made.
(c) Someone is sitting on it.
(d) His owl tipped his cage onto it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nearly Headless Nick ask Harry to do as a favor?

2. Why does Oliver Wood wake Harry up at daybreak on Saturday?

3. How many letters has Harry received from his friends over the holidays?

4. What does Ron tell Harry the definition of a Squib is?

5. Which two schools were said to have had a serious argument about which students to be let into Hogwarts?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the relationship between Collin Creevey and Harry Potter as seen in Chapter Seven.

2. Describe Fred and George and their appearance in Chapter Three.

3. Describe the Weasley house.

4. What is the reaction that Harry and Ron receive from the other students in the Gryffindor House when they enter it after leaving Professor McGonagall's office in Chapter Five?

5. Who do Harry, Ron, and Hermione seem to think would be a possibility for the Heir Slytherin in Chapter Nine and why?

6. What is Filch's reaction when he finds Mrs. Norris, his cat, petrified?

7. Describe the reaction Vernon has when he realizes that Harry is escaping with Ron and his brothers. Do you think his reaction is odd? Why or why not.

8. What is confusing to Harry when he hears the voice in the hall before they find the petrified cat?

9. Describe Mr. Filch from the description given when he takes Harry into his office in Chapter Eight. Why does he let Harry go without punishment?

10. Give one word that explains Vernon Dursley's reaction when Harry says "magic" in Chapter One. Explain why you have given this word.

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