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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do the dwarves affix the glass from the mirror to the lid of Bianca's coffin?
(a) To guard the coffin from afar.
(b) To decorate the coffin.
(c) In order to witness her decomposition and their own transition into full humanness.
(d) To show Bianca that she is not alone.

2. What do the dwarves marvel at in "Fire and Ivy"?
(a) How long it has been since Vicente has visited.
(b) Their new form.
(c) Bianca's beauty.
(d) The bright sun.

3. What is Lucrezia amazed by in "The Heart of the Matter"?
(a) That Venice is so empty.
(b) That Venice is so smelly.
(c) That Venice is so foggy.
(d) That Venice is so chaotic.

4. What does Lucrezia disguise herself as in "An Ivory Comb, My Dear"?
(a) An elderly woman.
(b) A tavern wench.
(c) A dirty, bedraggled monk.
(d) A vagrant.

5. What did Ranuccio go to the monastery to do?
(a) Meet an old friend.
(b) Find some food and shelter.
(c) Build up strength.
(d) Study and pray for absolution.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Theo Bombast von Hohenheim also known as?

2. What year is Part Four set in?

3. How does Bianca's childhood seem to her in "Montefiore"?

4. What is the name of the palace where Lucrezia is headed in "The Heart of the Matter"?

5. What does Lucrezia do when she heads for open water in "The Heart of the Matter"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Nextday tell Bianca about the mirror in Part 3?

2. How does Lucrezia poison Bianca in "Two Bites from the Apple"?

3. How does the eighth dwarf help Vicente in Part 3?

4. What does Lucrezia see in the mirror in "Mirror Mirror"?

5. How does Bianca feel when she returns to Montefiore in "Montefiore"?

6. What do the dwarves do to the coffin in "Fire and Ivy"?

7. What does Vicente achieve at the end of "A Beast in the Wall"?

8. What happens when Vicente talks aloud in his cell in "A Beast in the Wall"?

9. What does Lucrezia discover about the gondolier in Part 4?

10. How does Lucrezia react to the sacred branch in Part 3?

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