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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Granny calms Esk who is panicking. What is the vital lesson that Esk has learned?
(a) Becoming stronger.
(b) Going beyond Borrowing to becoming.
(c) Flying.
(d) Having a strong mind.

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

3. Who seems very different from siblings and exhibits odd behavior at Granny's house?
(a) Gulta.
(b) Mulab.
(c) Esk.
(d) Cern.

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

5. When Granny wakes up in her house, what does she find is too strong for her to locate Esk?
(a) Wolves' pack mind.
(b) Destruction.
(c) Noise.
(d) Pollution.

6. After Granny subdues Esk and brings her back home, what does she find and use the raw power of the staff to unravel?
(a) Strong potions.
(b) Wound up emotions.
(c) Flickers of Esk's silvery mind.
(d) Spools of magic yarn.

7. While Granny is nervous about being in the city, Esk enjoys the colors, smell, and noise. What is it a mix of?
(a) Pleasure and pain.
(b) Prostitution and violence.
(c) Religion and commerce.
(d) Drugs and alcohol.

8. 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) Weatherbee.
(b) Gulta.
(c) Smith.
(d) Esk.

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

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

11. When Esk is flying, what ability does she start to lose?
(a) To be a human.
(b) To speak.
(c) To hold onto memories.
(d) To know how to fly.

12. At night, while Granny rests, Esk wanders through the city. Where does she end up?
(a) The Red Lion.
(b) The Feisty Owl.
(c) The Fiddler's Riddle.
(d) The Bloodhound.

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

14. What role did Granny assume when she "borrows" another's mind?
(a) That of a predator swooping down on prey.
(b) That of a crow.
(c) That of an evil medium doing a midnight séance.
(d) That of a magician.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Granny write a letter to at the Unseen University?

2. Who tells Granny that she must take Esk to University and denies that women cannot be wizards?

3. When Granny discovers that Esk is traveling on a vessel that belongs to the Zoon family, what does she consult to find the young girl?

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

5. In the first section of the book, what is the primary theme that the author Terry Pratchett discusses?

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