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

2. To which of the following does Ratwin compare Anja?

3. Which guise of the Immortal separated the Archipelago from the rest of the world?

4. What vine grows on the cliff Christopher must climb to reach the sphinxes?

5. What subject does Mal lament having had to study?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 2

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

Essay Topic 3

Overall, what is the most important theme of Impossible Creatures. What in the text indicates as much? How does it do so?

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