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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 Elinor's biggest fear as she and the others escape into the hills above the village where her car had a flat tire?

2. What is the name of Dustfinger's killer in the book Inkheart?

3. What keeps Meggie from chasing after Mo and Capricorn's men initially in chapter 6?

4. Why does Dustfinger claim in chapter 6 he likes the nighttime better?

5. Why does Elinor insist on taking her own car to Capricorn's village in chapter 12?

Short Essay Questions

1. In chapter 19, what does Mo tell Meggie to help soothe her fear and to help her sleep?

2. Who does Meggie use as a spy in chapter 27? For what reason?

3. What does Capricorn tell Meggie in chapter 14 about his association with her father?

4. Why does Elinor turn off the alarm system in chapter 6?

5. Whose picture does Meggie see in the book Mo gives to Elinor in chapter 5? Who does she ask about it?

6. What has always comforted Meggie in regards to her lack of a mother as she reveals in chapter 29?

7. How does Elinor react in chapter 28 to the destruction of her precious books?

8. In chapter 13, what does Dustfinger tell Elinor about her personality based on her interests and the stories she likes to tell?

9. In chapter 30, how does Basta get Meggie to open the door to him?

10. What does Dustfinger steal from Basta in chapter 21? For what reason?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Who is Elinor? What does Elinor collect? How important is this collection to Elinor? Why does she dislike children? Why does Elinor question Meggie's presence in her house? Why has Mo come to visit Elinor? What does Mo ask Elinor to hide for him? What happens when Elinor disarms the alarm system so that Meggie might watch a show put on by Dustfinger? Why does Elinor trade out the book Mo gave her with another? How does Meggie respond when she realizes Elinor still has Mo's book? Why does Elinor insist on going with Meggie and Dustfinger to rescue Mo?

Essay Topic 2

Who is Resa? What is wrong with her? How does Dustfinger know her? What is the nature of their relationship? Does Resa know that she was from our world before she was transported to Inkheart? How did Resa leave Inkheart? What does Meggie think the first time she sees her? What does Mo think when he sees a picture of Resa from Dustfinger's backpack? What happens to Resa at the end of the novel? How does this resolve part of the conflict that has existed since the beginning of the novel?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss one of the following in detail, using quotes from the novel to support your conclusions:

1) Metaphor

2) Irony

3) Objects

4) Motivation.

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