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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 name had Mal suggested for Jacques?

2. What is one possible final ingredient of the potion to restore the Immortal’s memory?

3. Which of the following instruments do Mal and Christopher find in the palace of the Immortal?

4. Where does Mal bite Adam?

5. What kind of wine is offered to Nighthand on the Island of Murderers?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is a dryad-wood boat thought impossible?

2. Why do sphinxes ask riddles in the novel?

3. How did Anja and Nighthand meet?

4. What advice does the ruling sphinx give Irian and Nighthand?

5. What is the particular tragedy of Gelifen’s death?

6. What is the significance of pegasan sails?

7. Why does the manticore assert Christopher should respect fear?

8. Why does the caspasaran not suffice to navigate the maze around the Glimourie Tree?

9. What is the Somnulum, and what does it do?

10. Why had Anja been complicit in the attack on Mal?

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

Which character is the second most important in the text? How does the work support such an assertion?

Essay Topic 3

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

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