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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. What does Esk believe is about words and names?
(a) Books.
(b) Tests.
(c) Wizardry.
(d) Life experiences.

2. What does Cutangle transform into upon interacting with Granny?
(a) A snake, a giant reptile, a saber-toothed tiger, and an eagle.
(b) A mercenary.
(c) A fish.
(d) A dog.

3. 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 fabric of existence.
(b) A wizard panel.
(c) The time portal.
(d) A river.

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

5. Which two of the following are one and the same?
(a) Giants, killers.
(b) Sorcerers, wizards.
(c) Wizardry, high magic.
(d) Dwarves, women.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who cannot remember the library ever being cleaned but allows Esk to do it?

2. What flows gently rather than appearing dramatically as on spherical planets?

3. While Esk is in the bustling square of the town, she pulls on the hem of a man's clothing. What is the man counting?

4. When Esk runs away from the caravan, what does she want to prove to the group and to everyone?

5. When Esk tries to move the staff, what does she do?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is in charge of the laundry operations and where does this person live?

2. Why does Esk get angry with Simon and Master Treatle?

3. How does Esk enter the library and what does she notice that is different?

4. What happens to Esk when she becomes the mind of the stones of the University?

5. What is the nightmare that Esk has about the Strange Things when Granny finds her?

6. What happens to the traveling caravan party three days after they leave Zemphis?

7. What happens in the library involving Simon?

8. When Esk fights with the Things, what does she realize about their bodies?

9. What does Esk say that Cutangle finds fascinating and unprecedented but against the lore?

10. How is the wizard apprentice process different in Esk and Simon's time from previously?

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