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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. How long is a seabull expected to live?

2. What kind of fish does Ratwin retrieve on Mal and Christopher’s first morning aboard the Neverfear?

3. What animals transport the Azurial Senate?

4. On what island does Mal live?

5. Which of the following is a Senate guard?

Short Essay Questions

1. For what does Nighthand assert “sorry” is an appropriate response?

2. What are voulay drops?

3. Why is Christopher sent to Scotland?

4. Why does Frank choose the portrait he does to hide his safe behind?

5. Why does Gelifen give Christopher one of his feathers?

6. Why does Mal purchase the caspasaran?

7. In the novel, what is a bridgi?

8. Why does Christopher wear a necklace of coins?

9. Why are Mal and Christopher prevented from entering the Senate?

10. What does Christopher know about the attention and love of animals?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

To what other writer’s work in your experience does Rundell’s seem most similar? What makes the writers similar? What differentiates them? Overall, which do you regard as doing better at the craft of writing, and why?

Essay Topic 2

A lack of formal sectional division in the novel obliges a fairly arbitrary breakdown of the text for purposes of study and discussion. That is, there are chapters, but the chapters are not grouped together in larger sections. On what grounds might the divisions used for study and discussion be in place? Why and how are they appropriate to the text?

Essay Topic 3

Explicate the significance of the name of any one character in the text other than Mal.

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