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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. In what town does Mal live?

2. Which of the following had nested in Christopher’s mother’s coat?

3. What kind of fish does Ratwin retrieve on Mal and Christopher’s first morning aboard the Neverfear?

4. With what are the ship’s biscuits on the Neverfear spiced?

5. Which of the following does Leonor offer Mal?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How is the behavior of the kraken explained?

3. Why does Mal purchase the caspasaran?

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

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

6. In the novel, what is a bridgi?

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

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

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

10. What is Frank’s job as guardian?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Assuming that Impossible Creatures should be standard reading for a given class and level, what class and what level? Why that class and why that level? What in the text suggests as much, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

Typically, an epigraph is expected to speak to or set the tone for the work it introduces. Do the epigraphs of Impossible Creatures do so for the present novel? How or how not?

Essay Topic 3

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

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