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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. When Granny cannot find Esk, what does Hilta bring Granny so that she can search for Esk?

2. When Granny asks Esk to fetch her witchcraft, what does she say Esk must know, without which there is no point to teaching her witchcraft?

3. At night, while Granny rests, Esk wanders through the city. Where does she end up?

4. When Esk parts company with the Zoon family, what does she leave with?

5. When Esk is flying, what ability does she start to lose?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. When Granny turns into an owl and flies to the orchard to talk to the apple tree, what does the tree tell her?

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

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

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

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

10. What happens when Granny finds the eagle on a snowdrift?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Granny tells Esk about "headology." What is headology? How is it practiced? Describe.

Essay Topic 2

When Esk goes to the university, she is not immediately accepted because wizards are male. She faces institutionalized discrimination. What is institutionalized discrimination? How is it portrayed in "Equal Rites"? How does the author Terry Pratchett lampoon the institution of higher learning? Describe.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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