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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 is the area inhabited by disreputable people who dabble in soft magic that Granny stays at?
(a) Underground Lair.
(b) The Shades.
(c) None of the answers is correct.
(d) Pine Hill.

2. Who protect caravans but are in lesser demand than wizards are?
(a) Dogs.
(b) Horses.
(c) Swordsmen.
(d) Camels.

3. Who are the city people that are friendly and have guests every night that Esk notices?
(a) The Palms.
(b) The Smiths.
(c) The Zoons.
(d) The Whitlows.

4. When Esk finds a book similar to Simon's, what does she notice that is different about the book?
(a) The letters are ugly creatures doing evil things to one another.
(b) It is heavy.
(c) It turns into a bird.
(d) It is old.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Simon call up that the staff saved Esk from?

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

3. Where does Granny notice the sound of hammers everywhere?

4. What does Esk believe is about words and names?

5. What is the only mind that Granny says that she can work with to influence?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Master Treatle and why is Adab Gander negotiating with him?

2. When Granny enters the Great Hall and approaches Cutangle, what does he do?

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

4. What does Esk ask the man who is counting tobacco and what does he tell her?

5. What happens in the library involving Simon?

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

7. How does Granny enter the University and what does she find?

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

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

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

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