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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 think someone uses to create the ghost?

2. What is Count Scarazoni doing as Fabrizio encounters him?

3. Of what does Mangus accuse Fabrizio?

4. What are the Queen and Princess trying to accomplish with the ghost scheme?

5. What does Fabrizio suggest?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Teresina say to Fabrizio when he goes to her chambers?

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

4. Why does Fabrizio go in search of Mangus? Whom does Fabrizio encounter on his search?

5. Where do Fabrizio and the Queen find Mangus and what does he claim?

6. Describe the circumstances that force the Count to admit his guilt?

7. Of what does Mangus assure the Queen?

8. What does Mangus ask of the King the next day after the incident in the Chapel?

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

10. What does the Queen say about her son?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Sometimes a book is more of a character-driven plot rather than action driven, and vice-versa. Some books seem to balance the two. Discuss the following:

1) What do you think it means to say that a plot is character-driven? Action driven?

2) How do you think a plot differs if it is character-driven versus action driven?

3) Which type of plot do you find more interesting? Why?

4) Do you think it is possible to have a plot where action and character development share equal time? Why or why not?

5) Is the plot in Midnight Magic character or action driven? Explain your response.

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

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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