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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Granny do in her youth that she found more difficult to do as she got older?

2. Granny enters a fortune-telling booth. Whom does the voice asking if you want your fortune read belong to?

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

4. Since Esk is eager to learn magic, what does Granny suggest that Esk should borrow the mind of?

5. What does Granny enter to get all the drones searching for Esk?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What happens when Esk escapes from the Skillers?

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

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

8. What is "headology?"

9. When Esk and her two brothers go to Granny's house, what do they notice around her house?

10. What does the wizard Billet come into the town of Bad Ass for and what does he find?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Consider the discussion about witches that appears throughout the book. What is a witch according to Granny? What is a witch according to Cutangle? How does this definition change with the arrival of Esk? What are witches traditionally associated with?

Essay Topic 2

What is Borrowing? When Esk does this for the first time, how does she change? What does she struggle with? What does she give up? How does she come back into her own body? Describe.

Essay Topic 3

The staff or broom appears throughout the book as a magical device with a life of its own. Describe the staff and its journey throughout the story.

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