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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 first greets Nighthands on the Island of Murderers?

2. What answer does Irian give to her riddle?

3. What does Mal call the worst question?

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

5. How many years had passed between the burial of the last warrior queen and that of Gelifen?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why do sphinxes ask riddles in the novel?

3. Why does Mal decline to have Nighthand and Irian accompany her and Christopher to bury Gelifen?

4. What is the significance of pegasan sails?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 3

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

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