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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. As which of the following is a kraken initially misidentified?

2. Which of the following does Leonor offer Mal?

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

4. For which of the following does the Neverfear set sail after leaving the Senate?

5. What word is not welcome aboard the Neverfear?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Frank’s job as guardian?

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

3. Why does Mal purchase the caspasaran?

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

5. Why does Mal note she cannot remain outside the Archipelago?

6. How does Etymologies describe a griffin?

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

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

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

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

Why would an inescapable prison have wardens? What in the text and in experience explain so much? How do they do so?

Essay Topic 2

The novel remarks that “the words with the greatest power to create both havoc and marvels are these:
“‘I need your help’” (59).

In the novel and in experience, is the remark correct? How or how not?

Essay Topic 3

Consider the ending of the novel. Does it satisfy? How or how not?

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