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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 bird does Frank note minding?

2. In what form was the Immortal first born?

3. Which of the following crews with Nighthand?

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

5. How often are sphinxes reported to eat those who visit them?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Mal purchase the caspasaran?

2. Why does Christopher wear a necklace of coins?

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

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

5. What are voulay drops?

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

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

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

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

10. In the novel, what is a bridgi?

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

To what extent is the Immortal a Christ-figure? Explain, based on your reading.

Essay Topic 3

To what genre other than fantasy might Impossible Creatures be considered to belong? What in the text supports that identification? How does it do so?

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