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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Granny gets back to her house, she finds that the staff has returned and thrusts it into the fireplace. However, what gets destroyed while the staff remains unmarked?
(a) Cooking Pots.
(b) Magic stones.
(c) Laser beams.
(d) Utensils.

2. When Granny recovers Esk and takes her home, whom/what does she turn to for advice?
(a) A magic apple tree.
(b) Smith.
(c) The staff.
(d) An owl.

3. When Esk back talks, what does her father do that causes a series of odd happenings and frayed nerves?
(a) Slaps her.
(b) Locks her in the closet.
(c) Yells at her mother.
(d) Beats her.

4. According to Granny, what are male wizard minds all about?
(a) Power.
(b) Control.
(c) Knowledge.
(d) Greed.

5. Who finds the key in the privy, enabling the blacksmith's three children to enter the house and go to Granny who is in bed with the window open?
(a) Gulta.
(b) Smith.
(c) Esk.
(d) Weatherbee.

6. While Esk does chores for Granny at her house, what does she also become good at?
(a) Doing spells.
(b) Listing plants by pharmacological use.
(c) Practicing magic.
(d) Using the staff.

7. What does the Zoon family agree to keep Esk on board in return for?
(a) Doing chores.
(b) Teaching them alchemy.
(c) Doing magic.
(d) Teaching them how to control the minds of animals.

8. What or who kills the wolves in the woods surrounding Granny Weatherwax's house?
(a) A flying staff.
(b) Gulta.
(c) Smith.
(d) Esk.

9. What is the name of the wizard who comes to ask about the blacksmith's eighth son?
(a) Drum Billet.
(b) Esk.
(c) Granny Weatherwax.
(d) Smith.

10. What is the normal apprenticeship ritual that Granny no longer feels comfortable teaching Esk after her journey in the animal's body?
(a) Dance around the fire.
(b) Flying enactments.
(c) Brotherhood of the Wise and Enlightened.
(d) Mind control games.

11. When Esk leaves the Skiller residence and wanders down to the docks, what does she board?
(a) A steamboat.
(b) A sailboat.
(c) A battleship.
(d) A barge.

12. When Granny Weatherwax appears to have died in her bed, what do the Smith boys do?
(a) Run for help.
(b) Try to wake her up.
(c) Call the police.
(d) Cry.

13. What does Esk notice that they are passing by as the boat travels?
(a) Colorful cliffs.
(b) Ruins.
(c) Ancient monuments.
(d) Dancing mermaids.

14. Granny enters a fortune-telling booth. Whom does the voice asking if you want your fortune read belong to?
(a) God.
(b) James Dean.
(c) The Discman.
(d) Hilta Goatfounder.

15. Who tells Granny that she must take Esk to University and denies that women cannot be wizards?
(a) The apple tree.
(b) The dead wolf.
(c) The blacksmith.
(d) The sorcerer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Granny seem afraid of?

2. After Granny subdues Esk and brings her back home, what does she find and use the raw power of the staff to unravel?

3. When Skiller asks Esk to turn the taps into beer, what does she turn the liquid flowing from the beer tap into?

4. What does Esk learn to make with Granny in the spring, taking a practical course instead of learning magic?

5. When Esk waits for Granny's "mindshape" to leave, what does she do?

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