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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What reason does Granny oppose using books for?
(a) Reading purposes.
(b) Fuel.
(c) Door stops.
(d) Preaching.

4. What does Granny want to buy in the city?
(a) Jewelry.
(b) Medicines.
(c) Clothes.
(d) Spears.

5. Skiller laughs when Esk asks to drink what?
(a) Water.
(b) Beer.
(c) Goat milk.
(d) Wine.

6. What did Granny do in her youth that she found more difficult to do as she got older?
(a) Change into a serpent.
(b) Enter the minds of animals.
(c) Enter a tree.
(d) Become a wolf.

7. Since the blacksmith's sons do not see any footprints outside the witch's house, what are they convinced that the witch can do?
(a) Move through time.
(b) Move her house.
(c) Erase footprints.
(d) Change into animals.

8. When Granny and Smith bury the wizard in the family orchard, what grows in his place?
(a) An apple tree.
(b) A pineapple.
(c) A fig.
(d) A lion.

9. When Esk is in the body of the animal, what does she dream about?
(a) Dying.
(b) Big creatures and stars.
(c) Falling out of the sky.
(d) Living forever.

10. When Esk asks why Granny does not use magic to light a fire, what does Granny say in response?
(a) One must know when to use magic or not.
(b) Magic cannot make a fire.
(c) Fires fight magic.
(d) It is much easier to use a match.

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

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

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

14. What does Pratchett describe that normally prevents wolves from eating humans in the first section of the book?
(a) Barbed wire.
(b) Magic stones.
(c) Laser beams.
(d) Natural selection.

15. When Esk wakes up on the boat, what does she hear?
(a) A cat meowing.
(b) A couple fighting.
(c) A dog barking.
(d) A man drinking.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Esk back talks, what does her father do that causes a series of odd happenings and frayed nerves?

2. Whom does Granny tell that Esk needs to learn proper magic?

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

4. What view does Granny enjoy seeing when she explores high peaks?

5. When Mrs. Skiller puts her to bed, Esk cannot fall asleep until she holds what in her hands?

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