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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a beacon to Shadow creatures who hate those who are alive?
(a) Things.
(b) Potions.
(c) Death.
(d) Magic.

2. When Esk feels a state of nothingness, what feeling does she know that she must hold on in order to return to her human state?
(a) Anger.
(b) Loathing.
(c) Sadness.
(d) Fear.

3. Who or what appears often in Esk's dreams?
(a) Fairies.
(b) Granny.
(c) Simon.
(d) Hideous dark monsters.

4. When Granny falls off her flying device, where does she end up?
(a) Valley.
(b) Village.
(c) Bear trap.
(d) Church.

5. Who cannot remember the library ever being cleaned but allows Esk to do it?
(a) Granny.
(b) Archbishop.
(c) Whitlow.
(d) Simon.

6. What plays an important role in the great battle in the library of Unseen University that occurs later in the novel?
(a) Dancers.
(b) Hunters.
(c) Wild spirits.
(d) Grimoires.

7. Who or what are attracted to people who dabble in magic and mysticism?
(a) Granny and the Archchancellor.
(b) Things.
(c) Grimoires.
(d) Simon and Esk.

8. When Esk tries to move the staff, what does she do?
(a) She fails.
(b) She changes Discworld in tiny ways.
(c) She fights bloody wars.
(d) She loses to new wizards.

9. Where does Granny notice the sound of hammers everywhere?
(a) Underground cave.
(b) Mechanical room.
(c) Hunter hideout.
(d) Dwarf hall.

10. After Esk tries to move the staff, reality rebounds like a sloshing pond. In what does reality cause more changes and tiny whirlpools?
(a) The time portal.
(b) A river.
(c) The fabric of existence.
(d) A wizard panel.

11. In her dream, what does Esk see that seems to be hosting a party but she cannot enter through its gates?
(a) A church.
(b) A village.
(c) A castle.
(d) An inn with a large yard.

12. When Esk tries to enter Simon's room and cannot get the door open, what does she say to the student wizards?
(a) "Open it!"
(b) "Do your magic!"
(c) "Cast a spell!"
(d) "Bloody well wizz!"

13. How does Esk become the University building?
(a) She merges with it.
(b) She eats it.
(c) She feels the mind of stones.
(d) She makes herself into a giant.

14. After what event is Simon still not awake and lying in the infirmary?
(a) Fighting the trolls.
(b) Being hit by a shelf.
(c) Fainting.
(d) Falling off a cliff.

15. When Esk quotes Granny on warlocks and wizards, what is she pleasantly surprised to learn?
(a) Treatle has great respect for witches.
(b) The dwarves look suspicious.
(c) Hilta fights back.
(d) Simon does not laugh.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Master Treatle expound on that is used by wizards to give people whatever they want?

2. What is the self-assembled creature that Esk sees when she falls down in her magical state on the cold sand and sees Simon sitting in a circle?

3. What is a manual for invoking the spirits of the dead?

4. Who protect caravans but are in lesser demand than wizards are?

5. What is slow and erratic and on which Granny experiences trouble when she tries to fly?

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