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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 Count Scarazoni doing as Fabrizio encounters him?

2. What happens when Fabrizio tries to catch the Count?

3. What is the answer to Mangus' question?

4. What does the Queen think the Count wants?

5. Why does Fabrizio meet up with the Queen?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Mangus want to do, and why does the Queen not want him to do so? Who offers a plan?

2. What does Fabrizio do at Mangus' house?

3. What does Fabrizio do in the confusion over the death of Addetto?

4. What happens about the Count's glove that Fabrizio found?

5. Why does the candle not help Fabrizio? What does he do?

6. What does Mangus show the Princess and Fabrizio?

7. Why does Mangus call for the King right after the ghost disappears? What do they discuss?

8. Of what does Mangus assure the Queen?

9. Who comes to Fabrizio in his cell and what happens?

10. When the ghost appears, what does it say?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose one of the three options below and write an essay using details and examples from the play:

1) Almost all fiction contains some form of the idea of good versus evil. Take three characters and explain why they are good, evil, or a mixture and provide examples from Midnight Magic.

2) How would the story have changed if the Princess or the Queen had told Mangus from the beginning about their plot? Use examples from Midnight Magic to support your answer.

3) Most fiction contains some examples of foreshadowing. Carefully reread Midnight Magic and list five places you believe foreshadow a future event. Give details and explain why you chose each instance.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

People fear the magician. Many attempt to avoid Fabrizio because of his connection to Mangus, while others go out of their way to serve Fabrizio in the hope that Mangus will be kind to them.

1) What did you see of the character of Mangus that would make you appear a fearsome person? Why do you think the people fear Mangus? Use examples from Midnight Magic to support your answer.

2) What type of person did you see was one who tried to serve Fabrizio? How did that person's position and personality seem to influence serving Fabrizio due to fear of Mangus? Use examples from Midnight Magic to support your answer.

3) What type of person do you think would avoid Fabrizio due to fear of Mangus? Does this seem like a wiser choice than helping Fabrizio because of fear of Mangus? Why or why not? Use examples from Midnight Magic to support your answer.

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