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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 does Mangus suspect once stood in an empty niche?
2. The Count wants whom to avoid seeing Mangus?
3. Where does Mangus go after talking with Teresina?
4. Who shows Fabrizio back to his rooms?
5. Where does Mangus send Fabrizio?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Mangus chastise Fabrizio? Where does he send Fabrizio?
2. Describe Fabrizio's encounter with the Queen.
3. What happens as Fabrizio is finding his way to the kitchen?
4. Who has a conversation in the chapel? What is the gist of what they say?
5. What does the Princess ask of Fabrizio when he goes to help her after the appearance of the ghost?
6. Why is Fabrizio frightened by the soldier who knocks at the door?
7. Where does a soldier take Mangus and Fabrizio? What happens on the way?
8. Who is Fabrizio? What is he doing when Chapter 1 opens?
9. What is Mangus ordered to do while traveling to the castle? Why is he ordered to do so?
10. Before whom are Mangus and Fabrizio brought? Why?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss one of the following:
1) Trace and analyze the theme of manipulation and power in Midnight Magic. Consider the following questions as you write: What characters are most concerned with manipulation and power? Why? What are some symbols of manipulation and power? Symbols of powerlessness? What characters seem powerless? Use examples from Midnight Magic to support your answer.
2) Trace and analyze the theme of the scientific method in Midnight Magic. How does Mangus use it? How might Fabrizio's belief in and use of magic contradict the scientific method? Use examples from Midnight Magic to support your answer.
3) Trace and analyze the theme of crime and justice in Midnight Magic. What characters are most concerned with crime and justice? Was justice served in the end? How does the Count use crime to advance his plans? Use examples from Midnight Magic to support your answer.
Essay Topic 3
Discuss one of the following:
1) Define irony in literary terms. Discuss the irony of the situation of the King asking Mangus for help using the very same powers for which Mangus was condemned. What other situations contain irony in Midnight Magic?
2) Define symbolism in literary terms. Discuss the use and meaning of five symbols you choose to analyze from Midnight Magic. What do they symbolize? Is the symbolism obvious? Effective? Does the symbolism contribute to the enjoyment of reading?
3) Discuss five literary devices that occur in Midnight Magic and how they are used. Are they effective? Do they add or detract from the reading of the book? Why or why not. Some possible techniques: Allusion, connotation, denouement, dialogue, flashback, figurative language, motif, metaphor, narrator, point of view, simile, mood, and puns.
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