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

2. What reason does Granny oppose using books for?
(a) Preaching.
(b) Door stops.
(c) Fuel.
(d) Reading purposes.

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) The Discman.
(d) James Dean.

4. What does the visiting wizard at the beginning of the book see before he dies?
(a) That the newborn is a screamer.
(b) That the newborn is a boy.
(c) That the newborn is crippled.
(d) That the newborn is a girl.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the bearded man who reveals Esk's presence on the vessel?

2. What does Granny want to buy in the city?

3. What does Esk learn to make with Granny in the spring, taking a practical course instead of learning magic?

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

5. What does the Zoon family agree to keep Esk on board in return for?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. When Esk asks why Granny does not use magic to light a fire, what does Granny say?

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

5. Esk's use of the staff demonstrates something to Granny. What is that?

6. What does Esk do when Skiller does not give her what she wants to drink?

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

8. What is "headology?"

9. When Granny and Esk arrive in Ohulan Cutash, what do they see immediately in the marketplace and how do they both react?

10. What happens when Esk escapes from the Skillers?

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