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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Atticus in Chapter 8, Caleb’s new mark prevents Caleb from doing what?
(a) Moving.
(b) Using magic.
(c) Speaking.
(d) Hurting anyone.

2. According to Henry in Chapter 6, why did his father seek immortality?
(a) So he had more time to accumulate knowledge.
(b) So he had more time to accumulate power.
(c) So he had more time to accumulate love.
(d) So he had more time to accumulate wealth.

3. What does Caleb want Montrose to retrieve for him in Chapter 6?
(a) An encyclopedia of Kabbalah.
(b) Hiram Winthrop’s old notebooks.
(c) The Necronomicon.
(d) The deed to the Narrow House.

4. While fleeing the burning house at the end of Chapter 6, Montrose encounters the ghost of whom?
(a) Titus Braithwhite.
(b) His father.
(c) His mother.
(d) Adah.

5. How many three-digit numbers are found at the back of the book Hippolyta found inside the Winthrop House in Chapter 4?
(a) 84.
(b) 54.
(c) 74.
(d) 64.

6. What is the name of Montrose’s father, as revealed in Chapter 6?
(a) Odysseus.
(b) Agamemnon.
(c) Telemachus.
(d) Ulysses.

7. What is the name of the country club where Caleb and Lancaster meet in Chapter 8?
(a) The Glastonbury Country Club.
(b) The Greenwich Country Club.
(c) The Waterbury Country Club.
(d) The Manchester Country Club.

8. Who provides Montrose with the means to defeat Caleb in Chapter 8?
(a) Samuel Braithwhite.
(b) William.
(c) Dell.
(d) Hiram Winthrop.

9. What is inside the package Caleb gives to Lancaster during the meeting in Chapter 8?
(a) An encyclopedia of astrology.
(b) An encyclopedia of Buddhism.
(c) An encyclopedia of Kabbalah.
(d) An encyclopedia of alchemy.

10. What is Montrose holding at the end of Chapter 6?
(a) Ash-covered runes.
(b) Ash-covered notebooks.
(c) Ash-covered photographs.
(d) Ash-covered money.

11. Upon her return through the portal, who takes the box given to Hippolyta?
(a) Astronomers.
(b) Warlocks.
(c) Guards.
(d) Children.

12. What does Captain Lancaster rub all over Horace’s scalp in Chapter 7?
(a) Ashes.
(b) Spit.
(c) Poison.
(d) Blood.

13. According to Montrose in Chapter 6, where does his father strike him in order to prevent him from leaving home during the riot?
(a) Above his eye.
(b) Under his chin.
(c) On his nose.
(d) Behind his ear.

14. What is Horace’s after-school job, as described in Chapter 7?
(a) Pumping gas.
(b) Delivering newspapers.
(c) Washing cars.
(d) Delivering groceries.

15. Racial discrimination prevented Hippolyta from pursuing what career, as revealed in Chapter 4?
(a) Forensic psychology.
(b) Astronomy.
(c) Mathematics.
(d) Law.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter 7?

2. What is the subject of the letter Henry’s mother wrote to him, as explained in Chapter 6?

3. What does Atticus plan to do with The Book of Names, as revealed in Chapter 8?

4. What is the title of Chapter 6?

5. When does the novel’s epilogue take place?

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