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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. How old had Frank wanted Christopher to be before revealing his secrets to him?

3. What flowers grow on the hill behind Frank’s house?

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

5. How many years had Warren been at sea?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Christopher sent to Scotland?

2. What is Frank’s job as guardian?

3. Why does Christopher wear a necklace of coins?

4. What does Christopher know about the attention and love of animals?

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

6. In the novel, what is a bridgi?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Similarly, how might the novel be sectioned off for discussion and study other than it currently is? Why might those divisions be appropriate, based on the text and its contexts of composition and reception?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

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?

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