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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mrs. Weasley do as soon as she sees that Harry is reasonably okay from his journey to the Burrow?
(a) Makes him take a shower.
(b) Starts doing his laundry.
(c) Sends him to bed.
(d) Feeds him.

2. How is the Prime Minister's schedule phone call with the president "rearranged"?
(a) The phone call is not rearranged in any way.
(b) Time freezes so the call can come in later.
(c) Wizards shut down all phone service.
(d) The president is made to forget about it.

3. After Ron kisses Lavender Brown, why does Harry find it so difficult to talk to Hermione?
(a) Because she refuses to talk to Harry as long as he is friends with Ron.
(b) Because Hermione only wants to talk about Lavender.
(c) Because Hermione is giving Harry the silent treatment.
(d) Because she is always in the library instead of the Gryffindor common room.

4. Who is Mrs. Cole?
(a) A stranger Harry keeps seeing in his dreams.
(b) The matron of an orphanage.
(c) Dumbledore's sister.
(d) Merope's mother.

5. Who does Harry unintentionally practice "Levicorpus" on for the first time?
(a) Hermione.
(b) Ron.
(c) Professor Snape.
(d) Neville.

6. Who arrives just in the nick of time to calm Harry down when he's upset about the stolen goods being sold in Hogsmeade?
(a) Ginny.
(b) Hagrid.
(c) Tonks.
(d) Dumbledore.

7. What family item does Merope sell in her desperate attempt to get money?
(a) Slytherin's necklace.
(b) A dagger.
(c) Her baby.
(d) All of her jewelry.

8. How does Harry test to see if Kreacher is really his?
(a) He asks Dobby.
(b) He gives him a command and Kreacher follows.
(c) He checks Kreacher's paperwork.
(d) He spies on Kreacher for a little while.

9. What does Fudge say his purpose of his meeting with the Prime Minister is?
(a) To announce some new wizard farming initiatives.
(b) To discuss the function of a rubber duck, since no muggle can understand it.
(c) He wants to introduce him to his successor.
(d) To ask the Prime Minister and his wife over for dinner.

10. Who is invited to join Professor Slughorn for lunch on the train to Hogwarts?
(a) Ginny.
(b) Harry.
(c) Neville.
(d) All of these answers is correct.

11. Whose Potions textbook is Harry given until he can get a new one?
(a) Fred's.
(b) George's.
(c) The Half-Blood Prince's.
(d) Professor Slughorn's.

12. What does Professor Slughorn offer as a reward to the student who makes the best potion on the first day of class?
(a) A pass on not having to write an essay later in the term.
(b) A pass on the homework for the day.
(c) A special tutoring session in private.
(d) A bottle of Felix Felicis.

13. After Ron kisses Lavender Brown, why does Harry find it so difficult to talk to Ron?
(a) Because Harry is really, really jealous.
(b) Because he and Lavender are inseparable.
(c) Because Harry is mad at him.
(d) Because Ron only wants to talk about Lavender.

14. What does Merope request as she lay dying?
(a) That no one talk about her death.
(b) That her body be buried at sea.
(c) That her son be named Tom Marvolo Riddle.
(d) That no one talk about her baby.

15. Who do Ron, Hermione, and Harry find in Hogsmeade selling stolen items?
(a) Mundungus.
(b) Mr. Weasley.
(c) Lupin.
(d) Tonks.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the other children respond to the young Tom Riddle at the orphanage?

2. Which Weasley son is still not talking to his parents?

3. According to Snape, why is Voldemort angry with Lucius Malfoy?

4. Why doesn't Ron and Harry have Potions textbooks when they start the year?

5. At what time does Harry have to report to Snape's office for his first detention of the year?

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