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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. To which of the following does Frank compare Christopher?

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

3. About which does Irian note having asked a man at a party?

4. In which of the following does Christopher live?

5. What smell does Irian associate with a sea urchin?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Mal purchase the caspasaran?

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

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

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

6. What is a gagana in the novel?

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

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

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

10. Why are Mal and Christopher prevented from entering the Senate?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Consider the ending of the novel. Does it satisfy? How or how not?

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

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?

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