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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. How do the Dursleys view themselves?
(a) As laughable.
(b) As the best magicians of the century.
(c) As beyond reproach.
(d) As mean-spirited.

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

3. What is a Nimbus Two Thousand?
(a) A wizard's ring.
(b) A broom.
(c) A potion.
(d) A wand.

4. What is the characteristic(s) of the Gryffindors?
(a) Wit.
(b) Creativeness.
(c) Hard workers.
(d) Bravery.

5. How does Hermione keep Harry and Ron from getting in trouble in Chapter 10?
(a) She hides them with an invisibility spell.
(b) She is unable to convince the Headmaster not to punish the two boys.
(c) She distracts the professors so Harry and Ron can get to Griffindor.
(d) She tells the professors that the two boys saved her from the troll.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Slytherin team do a lot of during the Quidditch match in Chapter 11?

2. What prop is used in the sorting ceremony?

3. How do the Dursleys act towards Harry in his last month there before school?

4. What does Hermione see when she scans the crowd with Hagrid's binoculars during the Quidditch match between Griffindor and Slytherin?

5. What does Mr. Dursley notice happening in broad daylight?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who are Angus Filch and Mrs. Norris?

2. What is to happen in early November after the weather turns bitterly cold?

3. What happens one night after the Dursleys have been in bed for quite some time?

4. What happens when Mr. Dursley breaks under the stress of all the letters piling up?

5. How does Hagrid supply breakfast in Chapter 5, and what does he say that he and Harry must do after eating?

6. What does Mr. Dursley notice on his way to work one day?

7. What is odd about the wand Harry ends up buying at Ollivander's Wand Shop?

8. What happens one Sunday about the letters that are arriving at the Dursley home?

9. What does Harry think is going to happen when Professor McGonagall yells at him when he is on a broom in Chapter 9, and what does she do?

10. Why do Ron and Harry have a stilted conversation initially on the train?

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