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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. What does Lucrezia notice about the dwarves' cottage in "Reflections"?
(a) It has moved.
(b) It has been rebuilt.
(c) It has become overgrown.
(d) It has disappeared.

2. Which dwarf has a red beard?
(a) Bitter.
(b) Blindeye.
(c) Heartless.
(d) Gimpy.

3. What does Lucrezia think the creature accompanying Vicente resembles?
(a) A headless dog.
(b) A drowned rat.
(c) A malnourished goat.
(d) A deformed camel.

4. What happens the more the dwarves eat?
(a) They become stronger and taller.
(b) They become more human-like and animated.
(c) They shink.
(d) They become smarter.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lucrezia use to poison Bianca in "An Ivory Comb, My Dear"?

2. What do the dwarves tell Bianca they would like returned to them in "The Dwarves"?

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

4. What does Vicente notice in the corner of his cell in "A Beast in the Wall"?

5. Why did the dwarves craft the mirror?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Ranuccio Vecchia?

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

3. What does Ranuccio deny Michelotto? What does Ranuccio do in his place?

4. How does Lucrezia head for the palace of the Doge in "The Heart of the Matter"?

5. What does Bianca remember of Montefiore in "A Hole in the World"? What does her memory lead her to wish for?

6. What do the dwarves tell Bianca about her home and family in "The Dwarves"?

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

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

9. What happens when the dwarves eat soup in Part 3?

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

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