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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does McGonagall tell Oliver Wood about Harry Potter?
(a) Harry is to be the new seeker for Griffindor.
(b) Harry's potions grade must go up.
(c) Harry may not play Quidditch the first year.
(d) Harry is inept on the broom.

2. What happens when Malfoy enters Harry's compartment on the train to school?
(a) A fight ensues.
(b) He asks for Harry's autograph.
(c) Harry gets the willies.
(d) Ron leaves.

3. Where does the sorting ceremony take place?
(a) In the great hall.
(b) Each year the ceremony is rotated among houses.
(c) The lawn outside the main building at Hogwarts.
(d) Each house has its own area for the ceremony.

4. Who is Dudley?
(a) The father of Harry.
(b) Harry's cousin.
(c) Another budding magician.
(d) Harry's best friend.

5. Where does Harry spend most of his time while waiting to go to his new school?
(a) With Ron Wesley.
(b) At the public library doing research on magic.
(c) In his room looking over his new books.
(d) With Dudley and his friends.

6. Who is Fluffy?
(a) A newly born dragon.
(b) Hagrid's barn owl.
(c) A cat that used to be a dark arts witch.
(d) The three-headed dog.

7. How does Neville break his wrist?
(a) In a fight with Oliver Wood.
(b) Falling off a broom in broom-flying lessons.
(c) A small dragon bites it.
(d) He trips when he's walking with a girl he likes.

8. What list is Harry supposed to get in Chapter 5?
(a) Something he has wanted for each birthday he that has not been celebrated.
(b) The required list for the school term.
(c) A list of all the times his aunt and uncle have been mean to him.
(d) A list of the clothing he would like to purchase for school.

9. What has started now that it's November on Chapter 11?
(a) Students pledging to groups.
(b) Quidditch season.
(c) A new creatures course.
(d) Getting ready for mid-terms.

10. To what does the narrator compare Diagon Alley?
(a) A festival.
(b) A muggy strip mall.
(c) A carnival of lights.
(d) A black corridor.

11. What makes Harry think that the strange events the night of his birthday were not a dream?
(a) Dumbledore is snoring while levitated slightly off the floor.
(b) Hagrid is sleeping on the couch.
(c) A frog talks to him when he wakes.
(d) Professor McGonagall is making breakfast.

12. Who is Oliver Wood?
(a) The defense against the dark arts professor.
(b) The captain of the Quidditch team.
(c) The potions professor.
(d) The caretaker.

13. Who decides to hide the object Neville dropped after breaking his wrist?
(a) Malfoy.
(b) Harry.
(c) Goy.
(d) No one.

14. What is Quidditch?
(a) A room in Hogwarts where students practice dangerous spells.
(b) An invisibility spell.
(c) A wizarding game played in the air.
(d) A game where students ride unicorns.

15. What does Professor Quirrell say when he bursts into the Halloween dinner?
(a) There is a troll on the Hogwarts grounds.
(b) Harry Potter has been attacked.
(c) Voldemort is in the Forbidden Forest.
(d) There is an attack by dementers on the grounds.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Professor McGonagall disguised as in Chapter 1?

2. Who first enters Harry's compartment on the train to school?

3. What is in the Leaky Cauldron, which helps Harry and Hagrid get to where they are going?

4. What comes out of the chimney one Sunday at the Dursley's home?

5. Where does Harry sleep at the Dursley's house?

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