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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 the author tell Meggie to ask for in exchange for reading aloud a new story?

2. What did Resa teach Dustfinger?

3. Why does Basta hold Meggie by the hair on the entire walk to Mortola's quarters in chapter 48?

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

5. Why does Fenoglio tell Meggie not to try to escape in chapter 38?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Mo find in Dustfinger's backpack that helps him understand Dustfinger's behaviors recently?

2. Who is Dustfinger looking for when Basta and Mortola apprehend him in chapter 37? Where are they?

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

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

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

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

7. In chapter 36, what worries Meggie the most about her current situation?

8. What condition does Basta give in chapter 45 when he agrees to give the author pen and paper?

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

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

At the end of the book, dozens of mythical creatures appear. Where do they come from? For what reason? Where do some of these creatures decide to go? What role does Elinor play in their lives? Where do some of them go? Where does Tinker Bell decide to go? Where do Mo and Meggie decide to settle down? For what reason? Why does the author leave some loose ends at the end of the book? How does the reader know that there will be subsequent books in this series? Does this book stand alone well, or does the reader feel obligated to read the other novels in the series?

Essay Topic 3

Who is Farid? Where did he come from? Why does Farid initially refuse to speak? How does he come to realize that the world around him is now his reality? Why does he spend all his time with Dustfinger? What does he want Dustfinger to teach him? How does Farid help Mo rescue Meggie, Resa, and Elinor at the end of the novel? Where does Farid go when the novel reaches its conclusion? For what reason? What does this suggest for Farid's future?

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