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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. Who designs the maze around the Glimourie Tree?

2. What color coat do the karkadanns have?

3. What flower does the centaur use for the potion to restore the Immortal’s memory?

4. At what time do Mal and Christopher stalk off to flee her destiny?

5. What do Mal, Christopher, Nighthand, and Irian eat on the Island of Murderers?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why did the centaur who made the potion to restore the Immortal’s memory want living gold?

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

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

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

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

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

8. How did Anja and Nighthand meet?

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

10. What is the significance of Nighthand being stabbed by a karkadann horn?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Section divisions, their titles, and chapter numbering / division schema are all components of paratext. That is, they are not part of the text but are associated with it closely and affect its meaning. What significance, if any, accrues to the chapter-naming scheme at work in Impossible Creatures? If there is significance, how does that significance manifest? If there is not, what in the novel supports the paratextual divisions that are in place?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Assuming that Impossible Creatures should be standard reading for a given class and level, what class and what level? Why that class and why that level? What in the text suggests as much, and how does it do so?

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