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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 did Gertie do as they were riding Mo for an outing and a picnic lunch?

2. How long was Mesmera's python?

3. What language did Marigold and Moonspirit speak together?

4. How many hours a day did Bram work in the galley?

5. How many people could fit into the big top to watch the Wunderzircus?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was born on the same day that Bram was born?

2. Where did Bram awake after he saw Atoul?

3. How did Bram and Gertie meet?

4. What did Bram tell Mo when it appeared that they would drown?

5. Why was the cemetery where Josef buried called the Grenchin Hill Cemetery?

6. What did Josef do for a living?

7. Why did the captain order all non-essential personnel below decks?

8. What did the maharajah order to be made for Bram when he wanted to stay with Mo?

9. Why did a sailor on the boat that rescued the survivors hit Hands?

10. What reasons did Gobel give for selling the circus?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Bram promised his father that he would always take care of Modoc. Discuss how Bram decided to keep his promise, how he was helped to keep the promise, and how that promise changed his life.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss why Bram struggled with feelings of guilt and whether these feelings were due to a real or imagined moral code that Bram felt he had broken.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Gertie's feelings for Bram and how they changed throughout the book.

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