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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. How does Bastian feel about his home life?

2. Where is Atreyu approached by bark trolls?

3. What is the store owner doing when Bastian enters the store?

4. What are the people of the Grassy Ocean known as?

5. As they gather a few floors below the pavilion, how many doctors have already assembled from all over Fantastica?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe Atreyu's recurring dreams.

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

4. Describe the book that Bastian finds in the store.

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

6. Describe how the Childlike Empress rules.

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

8. What is Ygramul the Many?

9. Explain how Bastian's father became so distant.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The Auryn plays a major roll in the book. Explain, using details from the book, how it helps, hurts and otherwise affects both Atreyu and, later, Bastian.

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

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.

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