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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 does Capricorn want Meggie for?

2. Who follows Mo and company in chapter 20?

3. What does Mo tell Meggie in chapter 16 was her mother's favorite type of book?

4. What does the author compare Dustfinger to in chapter 7?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Dustfinger react to the sound of Meggie crying in chapter 7?

2. Why does Mo wakes Meggie in chapter 21? What happens?

3. What does Dustfinger attempt to learn about the book, Inkheart, but fails to find out?

4. What does Mo tell Meggie in chapter 22 that people often do not think about when it comes to books?

5. In chapter 23, what does Dustfinger catch Farid doing? What does he say about it?

6. Why does Meggie light candles in her room late at night? Why does Mo dislike this practice?

7. How does Dustfinger justify in chapter 12 his telling Mo that Capricorn was in the north when in reality he was in the south?

8. What does Meggie see Mo wrapping in brown paper in chapter 2? What is unusual about this?

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

10. What does Meggie say in the note she intends to leave with Elinor in chapter 9?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

When does Mo realize that when he reads something out of a book, something must go into a book? How long has Mo known he could read things out of books? How often has he noticed items around him disappearing while new items appear? Who did Mo read out of Inkheart? What went inside Inkheart? How does Mo try to reverse what has happened? Does it work? Why does Mo stop reading aloud? Why does Mo begin moving around often? What is he hiding from? How does this situation find him? Does Mo ever find a way to make amends for what happened the night he read Inkheart aloud?

Essay Topic 2

How do Mo, Meggie, and Elinor escape from Capricorn's village? Who follows them? For what reason? Why does Mo feel that he needs to find another copy of Inkheart? Where does he go to achieve this? Why does Dustfinger agree to go with Mo, but makes Mo promise not to tell anyone who he is? What does this stranger tell Mo about Dustfinger's fate in Inkheart? How does Meggie react to this? What does Meggie tell Dustfinger about this? How does this impact Dustfinger and his future actions?

Essay Topic 3

Who is Basta? Why does he chase Mo and Meggie most of the novel? What happens to Basta when he allows Mo to get away the first two times? What happens when Dustfinger tricks Basta into allowing him to escape from the basement of the old church? Why is Basta sentenced to die with Resa? When the book comes to its conclusion, why does Basta not disappear like the majority of Capricorn's men? How does Basta react to this?

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