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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. Where does Marcia take Jenna when they leave the Heap house?

2. What does Jenna see when she opens her gift?

3. What does Boy find on the sandy bottom of the cave he is in?

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

5. Why does Marcia drag Jenna upstairs when the Message Rat shows up?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why is Marcia reasonably certain that Sally will be safe?

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

5. On what day does information of the Princess emerge? What is the bearer of this news asked to do, and when?

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

7. What did Alther learn from DomDaniel and become so adept at that he taught Marcia, who now uses it against DomDaniel?

8. 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?

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

10. What does Jenna tell Boy 412 after he reveals the ring he found to her?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does DomDaniel's apprentice escape? In which direction is he headed, and why? What does he encounter along the way that gets on his nerves? Where does he finally manage to arrive? What does he report and to whom? What happens as a result?

Essay Topic 2

What is the Wizard's Tower? Who uses it? Why was it originally built and by whom? What features did the tower have with Marcia as ExtraOrdinary Wizard? What happens when her title is taken by DomDaniel? How does his presence affect the various features in the Tower and why?

Essay Topic 3

Why doesn't Silas return with Marcia's SafeKeeping? Where does he get stopped and why? What are the circumstances of his incarceration? Who visits him regularly? Why is Silas unshackled? Why does Silas waffle when he discovers the unlocked door?

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