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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Fabrizio distract the guards?
(a) Pretending to be in a fight with another servant.
(b) Making a coin disappear.
(c) Singing a ballad.
(d) Swallowing a sword on fire.

2. According to Teresina, where is her brother?
(a) Dead.
(b) At a school.
(c) On a mission to Rome.
(d) In a monastery.

3. Where is the first place Fabrizio goes?
(a) To speak with Rinaldo.
(b) To try to encounter the Princess.
(c) To spy on Addetto.
(d) To take a brief nap.

4. Where does the soldier take Mangus and Fabrizio?
(a) To eat in the dining hall with the King and Queen.
(b) To interview the Princess.
(c) To talk to Count Scarazoni.
(d) To the royal library.

5. What does Mangus say when he hears the story of the ghost?
(a) He is certain he can rid the castle of the ghost.
(b) It is too dangerous to get rid of a ghost until the ghost wants to go.
(c) He does not believe in ghosts.
(d) The ghost can force no live person to do its bidding.

6. Who is Mangus?
(a) A magician's servant.
(b) A magician.
(c) A baron.
(d) A squire.

7. Who gives Fabrizio some gold coins?
(a) His father.
(b) The Chatelaine.
(c) Mangus' wife.
(d) Mangus.

8. What does the Count hope to gain by the Prince's death?
(a) The favor of the nobles.
(b) Marriage to Teresina.
(c) The gratitude of the people.
(d) The end to the King's line.

9. To whom has Teresina reported her sighting?
(a) The captain of the guards.
(b) Her brother.
(c) Her mother, father, and tutor.
(d) No one until this moment.

10. What does Mangus say he will do?
(a) Whatever he can to help the Count.
(b) Stop practicing magic.
(c) Whatever he can to help the King.
(d) Go into voluntary exile.

11. What does Fabrizio ask of Mangus?
(a) To accompany him to the festival.
(b) To marry the cook.
(c) To accompany him to the castle.
(d) To give him money.

12. Who does Fabrizio encounter while walking back to Mangus' rooms?
(a) Lorenzo.
(b) The Queen.
(c) Addetto.
(d) Scarazoni.

13. Where does Fabrizio's guide direct Fabrizio?
(a) To a secret stairway.
(b) To a secret door.
(c) To a hiding place in a hidden passageway.
(d) To the attic.

14. What does the King want of Mangus?
(a) To help the King meet with the ghost.
(b) The King wants nothing of Mangus.
(c) To verify the existence of the ghost and to get rid of it.
(d) To take Teresina someplace safe for a while.

15. Who asks to speak to Mangus while the soldier is leading them?
(a) The Royal Librarian.
(b) Signore Addetto.
(c) Lorenzo.
(d) The King.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Fabrizio engaged in his actions at the beginning of the book?

2. How is Fabrizio interrupted from his activity?

3. With whom does Fabrizio talk while he is in the halls?

4. Who are waiting to meet with Mangus?

5. For how long has Teresina been seeing a ghost in the corridor?

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