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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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?
(a) Subdue it.
(b) Avoid it.
(c) Listen to it.
(d) Suggest things that are natural to it.

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

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

5. When Granny tells the Smith family about Esk going to the Unseen University, what does Esk do?
(a) Climbs her tree and thinks about wizards.
(b) Reads a book.
(c) Lights fires.
(d) Takes a nap.

6. 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 girl.
(c) That the newborn is a screamer.
(d) That the newborn is a boy.

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

8. Where does the fortune-teller tell Esk and Granny that the University is?
(a) 500 miles away at Circle Sea.
(b) 500 miles away at Flying Disc.
(c) 500 miles away at Rotating Turtle.
(d) 500 miles away at Shepherd Lane.

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

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

11. 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) Control, numbers, and facts.
(d) Facts, power, and revenge.

12. What does Granny enter to get all the drones searching for Esk?
(a) Nest of birds.
(b) Starlings.
(c) Ants' "nestmind."
(d) Bees' "hivemind."

13. When Mrs. Skiller puts her to bed, Esk cannot fall asleep until she holds what in her hands?
(a) The staff.
(b) The night wand.
(c) The sorcerer's hat.
(d) An elfish glove.

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

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When Granny is able to restore Esk to her body, whom does she free that now holds a grudge?

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

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

5. What does Pratchett describe that normally prevents wolves from eating humans in the first section of the book?

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