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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. Who does Nighthand posit Mal’s pursuer might be?

2. What breed is Goose?

3. What smell does Irian associate with a sea urchin?

4. Mal and Christopher flee Adam through a field of which of the following?

5. Against which of the following had Christopher’s father warned him?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Frank forbid Christopher from going to the hilltop?

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

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

5. What is Frank’s job as guardian?

6. What are voulay drops?

7. Why, per the novel, does a person need the kind of friendship that emerges between Mal and Christopher?

8. How is the behavior of the kraken explained?

9. What is a gagana in the novel?

10. Why does Mal throw Gelifen off of the cliff?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

What character is the protagonist of Impossible Creatures? How does the novel support such an assertion?

Essay Topic 3

Section divisions, their titles, and chapter numbering / division schema are all components of paratext. That is, they are not part of the text but are associated with it closely and affect its meaning. What significance, if any, accrues to the chapter-naming scheme at work in Impossible Creatures? If there is significance, how does that significance manifest? If there is not, what in the novel supports the paratextual divisions that are in place?

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