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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Esk parts company with the Zoon family, what does she leave with?
(a) Some food.
(b) Three silver coins and a necklace.
(c) A pendant.
(d) A basket.

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

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

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

5. What or who kills the wolves in the woods surrounding Granny Weatherwax's house?
(a) Esk.
(b) A flying staff.
(c) Smith.
(d) Gulta.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When Granny wakes up in her house, what does she find is too strong for her to locate Esk?

3. What can the eighth son of an eighth son become?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. When Esk becomes anxious to learn magic, what does Granny suggest that she do?

2. What happens when Esk leaves Granny's house but does not reappear for a long time?

3. Why does Granny enter the bee "hivemind?"

4. What happens when Granny finds the eagle on a snowdrift?

5. What is the practical course that Granny teaches Esk when Esk stays at her house?

6. What does Granny decide to do after she realizes that Esk is different from other witches and wizards she knows?

7. When Esk and her two brothers go to Granny's house, what do they notice around her house?

8. When Granny turns into an owl and flies to the orchard to talk to the apple tree, what does the tree tell her?

9. What happens when Billet holds the staff over the baby? What does Granny propose to do with the staff and what happens to it?

10. How does Esk help the head of the Zoon family in Zemphis and what does she get in return?

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