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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. What is significant about the room where Harry saw Sirius tortured in his dreams?
(a) It is identical to the graveyard where Cedric died.
(b) It has 13 Death Eaters in it.
(c) It is covered in layers and layers of dust.
(d) It is filled with shelves lined with glass orbs.

2. What causes a slight shifting in students' attitudes toward Harry?
(a) Sightings of Voldemort along Diagon Alley.
(b) A newspaper article declaring that Harry is right.
(c) The escape of Death Eaters from Azkaban.
(d) The murder of a Ministry employee.

3. Why does Harry break into Umbridge's office after his career counseling session?
(a) To find more enchanted items that could get her arrested.
(b) So he can use the fireplace to speak with Sirius.
(c) To look for clues about the Ministry's agenda at Hogwarts.
(d) So he can destroy the files she is keeping on the students.

4. What is the first clue something is not right when the children arrive at the Ministry of Magic?
(a) There are dark clouds gathering just above the Ministry.
(b) There is no security whatsoever.
(c) Minister Fudge welcomes them in personally.
(d) The doors are all wide open.

5. How do Hermione and Harry get into Umbridge's office to try to communicate with Sirius?
(a) The Room of Requirement creates a hallway into the office.
(b) Using Harry's invisibility cloak and knife.
(c) Filch lets them in by accident.
(d) They stun everyone that sees them sneaking about.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Hagrid save before escaping into the Forbidden Forest?

2. What do the children discover that caused Voldemort to be so ecstatic when Harry linked with him after his Occlumency lesson?

3. What does Hermione advise Harry to do when she learns he is still dreaming about the hallway inside the Ministry?

4. What is put into Dumbledore's Pensieve before the first Occlumency lesson?

5. Who gave the prophecy that linked Harry forever with Voldemort?

Short Essay Questions

1. Do you think Sirius has any responsibility for his own fate when he is hit by a spell and disappears through the archway? Explain.

2. Why is Luna able to comfort Harry about Sirius' death when no one else can?

3. What is the purpose of Umbridge's new decree that prohibits teachers from giving students information beyond their course curriculum?

4. What is Harry's reaction to learning Cho Chang has been dating another boy?

5. What aspect of Umbridge's personality becomes her undoing in the novel?

6. Why is it significant that Harry is able to repel Snape from his mind only when Snape tries to see the memory of Harry and Cho kissing?

7. Why are the teachers secretly delighted at the way Fred and George react to Umbridge's new position of Headmaster?

8. What is so impressive about Hagrid's fight with Umbridge and her goons?

9. Why do you think Voldemort is afraid of Dumbledore?

10. What light does Firenze's banishment from his people shed on the social structure of the wizarding world?

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