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

2. As they gather a few floors below the pavilion, how many doctors have already assembled from all over Fantastica?
(a) 550
(b) 599
(c) 499
(d) 450

3. Atreyu is so hungry in the deserted town that he does what?
(a) eats poisonous berries
(b) eats a strange fruit
(c) eats rotten food
(d) eats grass

4. How is the store owner described?
(a) boring
(b) friendly
(c) helpful
(d) irritable

5. In order to escape his day-to-day life, Bastian does what?
(a) escapes by reading the book
(b) disguises his appearance
(c) goes to live with a friend
(d) changes his name

Short Answer Questions

1. Who decides which travelers pass through the first gate?

2. How long does Falkor tell Atreyu that Atreyu was gone, after Atreyu returns from the gates?

3. When Falkor dives down to rescue Atreyu from the nothing, what happens tot heir skin?

4. What is the name of the book that Bastian reads?

5. What are the old alchemist and his wife?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe how the Childlike Empress rules.

2. Describe the owner of the bookstore where Bastian hides.

3. What is the mission that the messengers of Fantastica are on, as the first chapter opens?

4. Why does Bastian admit to Mr. Coreander that his schoolmates tease him?

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

6. What does the gnome tell Atreyu, in Chapter 5, after Atreyu is well?

7. When Bastian is very hungry, after reading about Atreyu eating rotten food in the ghost town, describe who he thinks of and why.

8. How does Bastian feel about himself in the prologue?

9. What is the Ivory Tower Like?

10. What is Cairon, the 500th doctor's mission?

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