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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 does Harry want Griphook to do?

2. About what is the "Tale of the Three Brothers"?

3. How is Voldemort killed?

4. For whose child does Harry become godfather?

5. What does Harry remember about a statue in Hogwarts?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to Severius Snape.

2. What does Harry learn about Severius Snape when Harry uses the Pensieve?

3. How do Harry, Ron and Hermione come to be captured by Snatchers?

4. What does Harry learn about the diadem as others are fighting the Death Eaters at Hogwarts?

5. Describe the encounter with Crabbe, Goyle and Draco and the destruction of the diadem.

6. How does Ron find Harry and Hermione?

7. How is Harry repaid from a previous mercy he showed Wormtail?

8. What does Harry figure out about the Elder wand and what does he see Voldemort do in relation to the Elder wand?

9. What does Dumbledore tell Harry about Voldemort and Harry's connection?

10. What does Alberforth Dumbledore tell Harry, Hermione and Ron about his sister, Ariana?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Most protagonists are a mixture of admirable traits and character flaws and Harry Potter is no exception.

1. Trace and analyze situations when Potter demonstrates his instinct for handling problems that might be beyond the ability of a seventeen-year-old boy. Give specific examples to illustrate your analysis.

2. Trace and analyze Potter's character flaws and explain how they create a more complex and believable character. How do you think Potter's character flaws make some situations more difficult for him?

3. After analyzing Potter's strengths and weaknesses, decide if Dumbledore is right in selecting Potter to be the "hero" of the story. Is there anyone else who might have done a better job?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the following:

1. What do you think are the characteristics of a successful novel?

2. Analyze and discuss Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows based upon the criteria you decide upon in #1 and judge if Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is a successful novel. Explain your rationale with specific examples.

3. Do you think the fact that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows falls within the genre of fantasy changes the criteria upon which its success should be judged? Explain.

Essay Topic 3

There are a number of instances of foreshadowing in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. For many of those instances, readers will suspect that they hint at something to come; others, the readers may not be aware until the event which is foreshadowed occurs. Discuss the following:

1. Define the literary term foreshadow. Why do you think authors foreshadow a future event? What might be a reader's reaction to a sudden tragic or wonderful event if there were no hints whatsoever that it might occur?

2. Find four events that are foreshadowed in previous chapters and pair up the foreshadowing text with the event. Analyze each event to include the following questions. What is foreshadowed? Is the method Rawlings uses to foreshadow effective? Did you guess when a particular text was foreshadowing a future event? Did you guess what the event is?

3. Along with foreshadowing, symbolism usually plays a role in most works of fiction? How extensive is the use of symbolism in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows? Is there enough symbolism to add depth to the writing? Interest to the writing? Explain your statements with examples.

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