View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mangus say about everything?

2. Whom does Mangus not trust?

3. What does Mangus suspect once stood in an empty niche?

4. How does Mangus get to the castle?

5. Where does the soldier take Mangus and Fabrizio?

Short Essay Questions

1. How often does Teresina see the ghost? Has anyone else seen it?

2. What happens when Mangus and Fabrizio are escorted to their chambers?

3. Why is Fabrizio frightened by the soldier who knocks at the door?

4. What does Fabrizio tell Mangus? What is Mangus' response?

5. What is the setting of Midnight Magic?

6. How does Fabrizio finally get someone to talk to him in the kitchen?

7. What does Mangus need to know? Why does he send Fabrizio in search of the information?

8. What happens when Mangus and Fabrizio enter the castle? How does Fabrizio try to help the situation?

9. Who has a conversation in the chapel? What is the gist of what they say?

10. What does Teresina say about her experience with a ghost?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In the world of academe, fantasy is often considered an inferior form of the novel compared to "classic" literature. Discuss the following:

1) Why do you think fantasy might be considered second rate compared to the classics?

2) Do you think fantasy has the same elements as the classics? Why or why not?

3) What are the purposes do you think for people reading "the classics"? What are the purposes for people reading fantasy? Is one purpose better than another? Explain your response.

4) Would you read fantasy even outside an educational setting? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Midnight Magic, like many, and perhaps a majority, of novels ends on a happy note. Discuss the following:

1) Why do you think most people want what they perceive as a happy or good ending to a novel? Explain your opinion. Do you? Why or why? not?

2) What are three reasons to read fiction? Discuss each one in light of Midnight Magic and whether or not it fulfills all three of the reasons you mention.

3) Do you think reading solely for entertainment is as good a reason to read as any other? Why or why not? Can any work of fiction or non-fiction, no matter how poorly written, enlighten, teach, stimulate thought? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss one of the following:

1) Thoroughly analyze how the setting informs the plot in Midnight Magic.

2) Trace and analyze one major theme of Midnight Magic. How is the theme represented by symbolism? By the characters' behaviors? By the action?

3) Trace and analyze two secondary themes of Midnight Magic. How are the themes represented by symbolism? By the characters' behaviors? By the action?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 906 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample