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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. Which of the following is a Senate guard?

2. Christopher has a picture of himself, his parents, and deer in what park?

3. Where does Ratwin intend the Neverfear pick up sailcloth?

4. What was the name of Christopher’s mother?

5. What animal approaches Christopher as he waits for his grandfather?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why had the seer who had named Mal been turned away?

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

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

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

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

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

8. In what circumstances can Mal fly?

9. What does Ratwin claim befell those prior to Mal and Christopher who sought the help of the Neverfear?

10. When is the way to the Archipelago normally supposed to open?

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

Consider the following comment by Nighthand: “‘Berserkers do not weep,’ he said. ‘And they also do not love. How would they, when they mustn’t fear? Love has fear baked into it” (138). In your reading and experience, is his final remark—that love necessarily includes fear—true? How or how not?

Essay Topic 3

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

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