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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In the first section of the book, what is the primary theme that the author Terry Pratchett discusses?
(a) Can a female be a wizard?
(b) Is magic possible?
(c) Is death preventable?
(d) Are animals magical?

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

4. 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) Change into animals.
(b) Move her house.
(c) Move through time.
(d) Erase footprints.

5. What arcs from Esk's fingertips, flares in the hearth, melts the ironware, and burrows into the hearthstone?
(a) Lightning.
(b) A blue light.
(c) Fire.
(d) It arcs from Granny's fingertips.

6. 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?
(a) An eagle.
(b) A hanging broomstick.
(c) The staff.
(d) A crystal ball.

7. Granny advises Esk not to upset the owner of the mind that she borrows by trying to control it but instead to do what?
(a) Listen to it.
(b) Avoid it.
(c) Suggest things that are natural to it.
(d) Subdue it.

8. What kinds of books does Granny like?
(a) Thin books to read in out houses.
(b) Paperback books you can throw away.
(c) Glossy hardcover books that you rest your coffee on.
(d) Books with pictures.

9. Whom does Granny tell that Esk needs to learn proper magic?
(a) Gordo.
(b) Smith.
(c) Esk.
(d) Gulta.

10. When Granny talks about men to Esk, what does she tell Esk that men are all about?
(a) Ownership, power, and greed.
(b) Numbers, power, and "jommetry".
(c) Facts, power, and revenge.
(d) Control, numbers, and facts.

11. What does Esk learn to make with Granny in the spring, taking a practical course instead of learning magic?
(a) Dressings.
(b) Lotions.
(c) Food.
(d) Ointments, infusions, and potions.

12. When you enter a creature's mind, what is difficult upon exiting?
(a) Restoring one's human balance.
(b) Wanting to come back.
(c) Changing form.
(d) Accepting death.

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

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

15. After Gulta becomes an animal, who agrees with Esk that her brother is more fitting as an animal?
(a) Cern.
(b) Her father.
(c) Granny.
(d) Archchancellor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the Zoon family reach when Esk accompanies a Zoon family member to shore?

2. What is the eighth child of the eighth son of the blacksmith called?

3. According to Granny, what are male wizard minds all about?

4. What is the name of the wizard who comes to ask about the blacksmith's eighth son?

5. What does Esk notice that they are passing by as the boat travels?

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