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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the strangest thing that happens as Boy 412 and Jenna flee from the Hunter?
(a) Jenna falls into a cavern.
(b) Boy 412 speaks.
(c) The Hunter leaves Nicko alone.
(d) The Shield Bugs are all killed.

2. What is the name of DomDaniel's ship?
(a) The Destruction.
(b) The Misery.
(c) The Vengeance.
(d) The Domination.

3. Where is the Message Rat to deliver a message to?
(a) Silas.
(b) Galen.
(c) Marcia.
(d) Aunt Zelda.

4. What is the main goal of Simon's return to the Castle?
(a) To see his best friend.
(b) To marry Lucy Gringe.
(c) To confront the Supreme Custodian.
(d) To slip in and out unnoticed.

5. Why did Simon slip away from Sarah and the others?
(a) To see his best friend, Pittacus Gringe.
(b) To see his girlfriend, Lucy Gringe.
(c) To retrieve a charm and a staff.
(d) To go back home to get things he needs.

6. What does Nicko not know, forcing him to remain behind in the boat?
(a) The changeling spell.
(b) The climbing spell.
(c) The defensive spell.
(d) The invisibility spell Marcia taught them.

7. What problem had Zelda not informed Marcia about?
(a) The rat hadn't told the whole truth.
(b) The message could not have come from Silas.
(c) Timepieces notoriously run out of time at the Keeper's Cottage.
(d) She planned to go with her.

8. What does closer inspection of the boat reveal?
(a) It is made of magic materials.
(b) That it once was alive and turned into a boat.
(c) That it is magically propelled.
(d) That it is not seaworthy.

9. What happens to the apprentice as they watch the spell of Septimus' birth unfold?
(a) He breaks the spell.
(b) He escapes.
(c) He is taken by the Python.
(d) He hides in the marsh.

10. What does Boy 412 finally agree to do?
(a) Stay with Aunt Zelda.
(b) Choose a real name for himself.
(c) Return to the Castle.
(d) Become Marcia's apprentice.

11. How do Sarah and Silas get to Aunt Zelda's?
(a) They come on the Vengeance.
(b) They paddle there in an old canoe.
(c) They are brought by the dragon boat.
(d) They come with Alther on his boat, the Molly.

12. What does Aunt Zelda reveal with her spell to see the truth of Septimus' life?
(a) That he was poisoned.
(b) That he was buried outside the castle walls.
(c) That he was taken by DomDaniel.
(d) That he was not stillborn.

13. What is the former midwife, Agnes Meredith, searching for?
(a) Her son, Merrin.
(b) Her husband, Joseph.
(c) Her brother, Dennis.
(d) Her daughter, Marlene.

14. What does Marcia ask Boy 412?
(a) If he will be her apprentice - again.
(b) If he remembers his family.
(c) If he knows what his name is.
(d) If he wants to be returned to the Young Army.

15. Who helps to capture the apprentice this time?
(a) Jenna.
(b) Boy 412.
(c) Bert.
(d) Nicko.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to DomDaniel's apprentice?

2. Where do they catch up with the apprentice?

3. Who finds out about Simon's plans and interferes with them?

4. What do Nicko, Boy 412, and Jenna do to amuse themselves?

5. Why does Zelda decide to stay behind?

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