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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 distracts the store owner shortly after Bastian arrives?
(a) another customer entering
(b) the telephone
(c) the radio
(d) the television

2. How does Bastian console himself when he is upset?
(a) He listens to music.
(b) He reads books.
(c) He calls friends.
(d) He plays games.

3. What is the store owner's middle name?
(a) Christopher
(b) Conrad
(c) Charles
(d) Carl

4. Snakes form an oval on the cover of the book by doing what?
(a) biting each other's tails
(b) sticking out their tongues
(c) weaving together in a zig zag pattern
(d) holding two halves of a medallion in their mouths

5. To reach Uyulala, one must pas through how many gates?
(a) three
(b) one
(c) two
(d) four

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the Tinies live?

2. Atreyu forgets who he is when he does what?

3. When Gmork dies, Atreyu becomes trapped because of what?

4. When Atreyu awakens on the mountain, there is what a few steps away from them?

5. How is the store owner described?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the gates to the Southern Oracle.

2. Who is Uyulala?

3. What creature does Atreyu find chained in the ghost town and why does it tell him it is chained there?

4. Explain why the book appeals to Bastian so much.

5. What question does Atreyu ask the four Wind Giants and what happens as a result?

6. What is Ygramul the Many?

7. What is the Ivory Tower Like?

8. Explain how Bastian winds up with the book in his possession.

9. Describe Atreyu's recurring dreams.

10. Describe how the Childlike Empress rules.

(see the answer keys)

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