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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 is the name of Nighthand’s preferred pub?

2. What does Frank have in store in his house?

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

4. With what does Christopher attack Kavil?

5. Which of the following had Christopher learned at school?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In what circumstances can Mal fly?

3. What are voulay drops?

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

5. What is Frank’s job as guardian?

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

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

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

9. Why does Christopher wear a necklace of coins?

10. Why does Nighthand note preferring to face the world drunk?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Sources attest to the presence of Impossible Creatures on best-seller lists. Assuming that sales figures reflect popularity, what accounts for the popularity of the novel? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

Which character is the second most important in the text? How does the work support such an assertion?

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