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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 Granny gets back to her house, she finds that the staff has returned and thrusts it into the fireplace. However, what gets destroyed while the staff remains unmarked?
(a) Utensils.
(b) Magic stones.
(c) Laser beams.
(d) Cooking Pots.

2. When Esk leaves in the body of the animal, what does Granny carry back to her house to wait?
(a) Food.
(b) Esk's inert body.
(c) Books.
(d) Plants.

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

4. Since Esk is eager to learn magic, what does Granny suggest that Esk should borrow the mind of?
(a) A tree.
(b) An owl.
(c) A wolf.
(d) An eagle.

5. What is headology?
(a) Wearing scarves around the head.
(b) The worship of heads.
(c) The study of heads.
(d) When people see the hat and cloak, they assume her magic will work.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When Granny Weatherwax appears to have died in her bed, what do the Smith boys do?

3. When Granny locks her cottage and takes Esk with her, what is the name of the nearby metropolis that they visit?

4. Where does the fortune-teller tell Esk and Granny that the University is?

5. Who/What flies through space on four giant elephants atop a massive star turtle?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Esk escapes from the Skillers?

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

3. What does Hilta see in Esk's palm and what does she advise?

4. Why does Granny dread asking the staff for help?

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

6. Why does Granny have a stormy scene with the Smith family?

7. What happens when Esk stays behind as her two brothers go in search of help for Granny?

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

9. When Esk back talks to her father as a little girl, what happens?

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

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