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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. What bird does Frank note minding?

2. What color of dragon do Mal and Christopher watch eat a goat?

3. What nereid saves Christopher?

4. From which of the following can a fisherman make a flute?

5. What word is not welcome aboard the Neverfear?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the Azurian Senate refuse Irian’s request for aid?

2. Why does Christopher wear a necklace of coins?

3. Of what does Christopher dream his first night aboard the Neverfear?

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

5. What is Frank’s job as guardian?

6. Why does Mal purchase the caspasaran?

7. How had Leonor known the seer who named Mal was legitimate?

8. Per Frank, why are there no longer magical creatures in most of the world?

9. What is a gagana in the novel?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Similarly, the lengths of chapters influence reading. What pattern of chapter-length is present in the novel, if any? What effect does the length of chapters have on the reading? How is the effect achieved?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Typically, an epigraph is expected to speak to or set the tone for the work it introduces. Do the epigraphs of Impossible Creatures do so for the present novel? How or how not?

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