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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. Which guise of the Immortal separated the Archipelago from the rest of the world?
2. What is another name given to the griffin?
3. What answer does Nighthand give to his riddle?
4. What kind of dragon awaits on the Island of Living Gold?
5. Where does Mal hit her attacker?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why do sphinxes ask riddles in the novel?
2. What is the Somnulum, and what does it do?
3. What advice does the ruling sphinx give Irian and Nighthand?
4. Why did the centaur who made the potion to restore the Immortal’s memory want living gold?
5. Why does Kavil’s employer want the Immortal to be a child?
6. What is the significance of pegasan sails?
7. Why is Mal apprehensive about approaching the palace of the Immortal?
8. What functions do the wardens on the Island of Murderers serve?
9. Why does the Immortal have the maze around the Glimourie Tree built?
10. Why does Mal agree to take the potion that will restore her eternal memory?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In the novel, some characters are given but one name, while others are given first- and surnames, and still others are accorded names and titles. What significance, if any, accrues to patterns of naming in the novel? If no significance accrues, what purpose might be served by the patterns of naming in the novel? How does Impossible Creatures bear as much out?
Essay Topic 2
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?
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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