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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Esk is frustrated with the Skillers, what does she realize about how magic works for her?
(a) It only works when she is not anxious.
(b) It only works when she is not afraid.
(c) It only works when she is not angry.
(d) It only works when she is not thinking about it.

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

3. When the fortune-teller reads Esk's palm, what does the fortune-teller see that Esk will have?
(a) Wedding.
(b) Strange journeys and exploration.
(c) Fight.
(d) Baby.

4. How old is the eighth child of the blacksmith when Mrs. Smith worries about Granny in the winter and wants the children to check on the old witch?
(a) Four.
(b) Eighteen.
(c) Fifteen.
(d) Seven.

5. When Granny travels in search of Esk who has entered the mind of an animal, how does she sit in lady-like fashion on her method of transport?
(a) With hands folded.
(b) Side-saddle.
(c) Astride it.
(d) Backwards.

6. When Skiller asks Esk to turn the taps into beer, what does she turn the liquid flowing from the beer tap into?
(a) Mulled cider.
(b) Peach brandy.
(c) Hefeweisen.
(d) Wine.

7. When Esk waits for Granny's "mindshape" to leave, what does she do?
(a) None of the answers is correct.
(b) Melts into the mind of the eagle.
(c) Leaves the eagle's mind.
(d) Runs away.

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

9. What does the visiting wizard at the beginning of the book see before he dies?
(a) That the newborn is crippled.
(b) That the newborn is a screamer.
(c) That the newborn is a boy.
(d) That the newborn is a girl.

10. What does Granny Weatherwax think should be burned because female wizards are not right?
(a) A hat.
(b) Shoes.
(c) A pot.
(d) A staff.

11. When Granny locks her cottage and takes Esk with her, what is the name of the nearby metropolis that they visit?
(a) Discworld.
(b) Ohulan Cutash.
(c) Kailash.
(d) Ankh Morph.

12. Where does the bearded man tell Esk that they are traveling through?
(a) Land of Dreams.
(b) Forbidden Caves.
(c) Upper Valley of the River Ankh.
(d) Forgotten Language Hill.

13. When Gulta kicks the staff, what does he turn into, causing everyone to come rushing, hearing him scream.
(a) A pig.
(b) A mouse.
(c) A bear.
(d) A frog.

14. Where does the Zoon family reach when Esk accompanies a Zoon family member to shore?
(a) Hilta.
(b) University.
(c) Land of Dreams.
(d) Zemphis.

15. Whom does Esk accompany and protect from being cheated?
(a) Zemphis.
(b) Hilta.
(c) Amschat.
(d) Granny.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who seems very different from siblings and exhibits odd behavior at Granny's house?

2. Granny advises Esk not to upset the owner of the mind that she borrows by trying to control it but instead to do what?

3. What can the eighth son of an eighth son become?

4. What role did Granny assume when she "borrows" another's mind?

5. When Esk is in the body of the animal, what does she dream about?

(see the answer keys)

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