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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 is Silas Heap taking home as the story opens?

2. Where is the sentry who stood outside the Tower?

3. Who is Silas taking this home for?

4. Who reveals the direction Silas and his group left in and their mode of transportation?

5. How does Marcia know who is at her door?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Silas, Jenna, the sentry, Nicko, Marcia and Maxie escape from the assassin? Where do they end up, and what complication arises as a result?

2. Why does Silas go into the forest, and what does he return with? What does he sense on the way back?

3. What happens to the sentry Marcia finds outside the Wizard's Tower? What is he afraid of?

4. Who usually gets Boy 412 out of bed and how?

5. How does the Hunter discover the direction taken and the mode of transportation used by Silas, Marcia and the others?

6. What does Morwenna Mould tell Sarah when she and Galen take the children to the Midwinter feast day, and how does she respond?

7. Why does Marcia object when the first of the sentries arrive at the Wizard Tower? What does she suspect the real reason for their presence is?

8. What kind of food does Aunt Zelda, serve and why is it so special to Boy 412?

9. How does Marcia manage to save the Muriel and her passengers from the Hunter and his men?

10. What does Alther discover when he leaves Silas and the canoes and goes to Marcia's apartment in the Wizard's Tower?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Boy 412 feel about Marcia and the others? What is his initial response to them, and why? What was his education? What events or behaviors change his mind? What is one of the first differences he notices? When does he make the decision that he never wants to return to the Young Army? What does he finally begin to do at that stage?

Essay Topic 2

Boy 412 finally accepts an invitation to be Marcia's apprentice. What are the terms? What does she provide him upon his acceptance as part of the tradition handed down? What does he ask for as his one 'Anything He Wants' offer from Marcia? What does he discover as a result? How does he feel about it?

Essay Topic 3

Although Alther is a ghost, he is still more than willing to help out where he can. In what ways does Alther help Marcia? How does he manage to make life more difficult for DomDaniel, despite lacking a corporeal self? What surprises does he leave for DomDaniel that will cause him discomfort?

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