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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 distracts the store owner shortly after Bastian arrives?

2. What is Bastian's last name?

3. How is Bastian's father's outlook and attitude described in the prologue?

4. When does Atreyu's memory return?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Atreyu's encounter with Morla.

2. Describe how Bastian's attitude changes as he arrives at school.

3. What happens after Atreyu is transported to the Oracle?

4. Describe how the Childlike Empress rules.

5. Explain how the geography of Fantastica works.

6. Describe the death of Atreyu's horse, Artax.

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

8. How does Bastian think his father will react to Bastian's running away?

9. Describe Atreyu's recurring dreams.

10. Describe the scene when Atreyu returns from meeting with Uyulala.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In the beginning of the story, Bastian steals a book. He feels compelled to do so. Do you feel that there is ever a good reason for a person to steal? Was it OK for Bastian to take the book, since he later returned it? Explain your answer in detail.

Essay Topic 2

Choose one of the following characters and explain, in detail, what role they played in the book. Be sure to explain not just what they did and when, but also how it affected the other characters and the plot, as well as what point or moral they may have tried to instill to the reader.

1. Blubb

2. Morla

3 Eyola

Essay Topic 3

The book is full of symbolism. Choose one of the following situations and explain what it symbolizes and what lessons it teaches:

1. Bastian changing into the Empress' image of him

2. Bastian wounding Atreyu with Sikandra

3. Bastian's encounter with the Know-Nothings

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