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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dustfinger feed to Tinkle Bell after finding her in Basta's house?
(a) Milk.
(b) Cereal.
(c) Meat.
(d) Fruit.

2. How long does Dustfinger tell Farid Resa has been Capricorn's maid?
(a) Nine years.
(b) Six years.
(c) Five years.
(d) Four years.

3. Why does Dustfinger think most of Capricorn's men do not have driver's licenses?
(a) They cannot provide proof of identity such as a birth certificate.
(b) They do not obey the laws of this world.
(c) They do not drive.
(d) They cannot read.

4. How does Fenoglio distract Mortola and Capricorn so that Meggie can slip his pages out of her sleeve in chapter 56?
(a) He pulls a knife on Mortola.
(b) He announces to everyone that Mortola is Capricorn's mother.
(c) He begins to argue that his story is not meant to be used this way.
(d) He tries to run away.

5. Why does Dustfinger say Capricorn often moves around from place to place?
(a) He is searching for an more ideal place to settle down.
(b) He has a wanderer's soul.
(c) He has an illness that forces him to follow warm weather.
(d) The police eventually become nosey.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are the executions to take place?

2. Who does Farid take with him when he sneaks into Capricorn's village in chapter 41?

3. What is Farid's idea to create a diversion when he, Mo, and Elinor sneak into the village to save Meggie?

4. Who is outside of Capricorn's house when Mo and Farid approach it in chapter 54?

5. Who stops Mortola from taking the new passage from Meggie in the middle of her reading?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do Capricorn's remaining men run away in chapter 57?

2. Where does Dustfinger hide in chapter 52? What does he find there?

3. Why does Meggie read the passage in Peter Pan that features Tinker Bell? What happens?

4. What does Meggie try to tell Dustfinger in chapter 49 that she is unable to convey due to Basta's presence?

5. What does Elinor do in chapter 47 when Mo and Farid do not return to their rendezvous point at planned?

6. What words does Meggie read in chapter 56 that cause The Shadow that she reads out of Inkheart to be altered from the one originally written?

7. How does Farid explain away the gunshots in the night that Mo and Elinor heard while waiting for Farid to return from the village?

8. In chapter 39, how does Capricorn explain his choice of punishments for Dustfinger and Resa?

9. Who is Resa? Why does Dustfinger remark that the only time you can hear her voice is when she laughs?

10. Why does Meggie tell the reader in chapter 59 she has decided to become a writer?

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