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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long have the Little Ones existed?
(a) Since time begins.
(b) Since the beginning of the first age.
(c) Since the fall of human beings.
(d) Since the end of the third age.

2. What library does Cat-Woman tell Vane to visit to learn about the Little Ones?
(a) Raven.
(b) Oxford.
(c) His own.
(d) Bulika.

3. From what does Vane vow to protect a frightened woman?
(a) A lion.
(b) A tiger.
(c) A black panther.
(d) A spotted leopard.

4. What does Vane throw away in disgust?
(a) A huge, green apple.
(b) A rotten melon.
(c) A leech that attached itself to Vane.
(d) A slimy water weed.

5. What makes Vane shudder?
(a) To think about how everything is so uncertain in the world he is in.
(b) The noises of the panther.
(c) The rattle of a snake.
(d) The noises of the lion.

6. To whose cottage do Vane and Raven go?
(a) The sexton.
(b) The archmage.
(c) The clown.
(d) The crow.

7. What is the rosebush?
(a) A lady playing a piano.
(b) A lady in distress.
(c) A knight on a horse.
(d) A gardener clipping daffodils.

8. Who does Raven say is with Vane?
(a) Just Vane's grandfather.
(b) Just Vane, Sr.
(c) Vane Sr., Sir Upward and Vane's grandfather.
(d) Just Sir Upward.

9. Where does Vane bathe the corpse?
(a) A small, cold stream.
(b) A claw-foot bathtub.
(c) A pond lit by the moonlight.
(d) The hot currents of the river.

10. What does Vane come upon as he walks under the moon?
(a) A ring resembling Stonehenge.
(b) A field of daffodils.
(c) A fresh corpse.
(d) A herd of unicorns.

11. What does Raven speak of as he starts the chamber turning?
(a) The way of the wheel.
(b) The end of the return.
(c) Esoteric ideas.
(d) How Vane's father gained enlightenment.

12. What do the beautiful beasts flee?
(a) The moon's paralyzing power.
(b) The sound of gunfire.
(c) The light of the sun.
(d) The sound of elves singing.

13. Who is Astarte?
(a) Cat-woman's messenger dove.
(b) The Queen of the Stars.
(c) Cat-woman's messenger panther.
(d) Cat-woman's messenger mountain lion.

14. How do the prayers rise from the church?
(a) In the form of pigeons.
(b) From the wind of the eternal breath.
(c) On the arms of a kite.
(d) On the heat of a fire.

15. How does Vane try to revive the corpse?
(a) By wrapping it in a resurrection plant.
(b) By singing to it.
(c) With prayer.
(d) With grape juice.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Vane see when he awakens to the sound of animal noises?

2. Why is Vane being watched?

3. What does a stupid man throw at Vane?

4. What does his guide become after Vane holds it?

5. What does Raven say the couple will eventually do?

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