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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. After what event is Simon still not awake and lying in the infirmary?
(a) Falling off a cliff.
(b) Fighting the trolls.
(c) Fainting.
(d) Being hit by a shelf.

2. What is the destination that Esk attempts to find a caravan traveling to?
(a) Land of Dreams.
(b) Zemphis.
(c) Murka.
(d) Ankh-Morpork.

3. What creature picks up Esk in her dream in its talons, carrying her and dropping her as it screeches?
(a) A dinosaur.
(b) A hawk.
(c) An eagle.
(d) The thing with the face of a drowned rabbit.

4. Who or what appears often in Esk's dreams?
(a) Hideous dark monsters.
(b) Simon.
(c) Fairies.
(d) Granny.

5. What does Granny tell Esk is a good, honest profession for women, particularly in rural areas?
(a) Gardening.
(b) Dancing.
(c) Witchery.
(d) Cooking.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Esk examines entire worlds, what are they encased in?

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

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

4. While wizards' minds give shape to thoughts, what do witches work with?

5. What plays an important role in the great battle in the library of Unseen University that occurs later in the novel?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Granny transform herself into to deflect Cutangle's attacks?

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

3. What happens in the library involving Simon?

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

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

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

7. Who is traveling with Master Treatle?

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

9. What happens when Treatle's caravan arrives?

10. What does Granny pretend to do for the person in charge of the laundry operations?

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