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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. Where does Mal bite Adam?

2. What is another name given to the griffin?

3. Which of the following is held in the Archipelago to be a metaphor?

4. What answer does Nighthand give to his riddle?

5. What flowers consume the palace of the Immortal?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why are Mal and Christopher instructed to wash before approaching a dragon?

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

3. Why does Kavil’s employer want the Immortal to be a child?

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

5. Why is Mal apprehensive about approaching the palace of the Immortal?

6. Why does the Immortal have the maze around the Glimourie Tree built?

7. Why do the nereids leave Mal, Christopher, and their companions at the edge of the City of Scholars?

8. What functions do the wardens on the Island of Murderers serve?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What character is the protagonist of Impossible Creatures? How does the novel support such an assertion?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Why would an inescapable prison have wardens? What in the text and in experience explain so much? How do they do so?

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