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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the group think they will go after they see the Goblin?
(a) To the safety of the valley.
(b) Follow the Goblin to the signpost.
(c) Continue their journey without interruption.
(d) To the Blue Pot.

2. In Part I, what holds up the journey's progress in a small provincial town?
(a) Terrible flooding.
(b) The opposition of Saturn and the moon.
(c) The Journey leader quits.
(d) The Prince of the provinces.

3. In Part One, who does the narrator quote as saying, "Where are we really going"?
(a) The narrator.
(b) Leo.
(c) The League novitiates.
(d) The poet Novalis.

4. According to H.H., what does the disappearance of a particular member threaten?
(a) The future of the League.
(b) The value and meaning of everything, even life.
(c) Leo's ability to perform magic.
(d) The secrecy of the League.

5. At the beginning of Part II, who or what else is missing?
(a) Orders from the Caliph.
(b) Other things from everyone.
(c) Instructions from the League Court.
(d) Food needed for the rest of the journey.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the unanimously observed rule of the group?

2. What impression do most people have of the League?

3. How does the narrator describe his country at the end of the World War?

4. How does the narrator describe the times early in Part I?

5. What does the narrator say is the one paradox that must be accepted?

(see the answer key)

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