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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 the conversation with the woman's husband at the farmhouse affect Anodos?
(a) Anodos is convinced Fairy Land exists.
(b) Anodos realizes he must find the Maiden of the Alder.
(c) Anodos realizes how homesick he is.
(d) Anodos doubts the reality of Fairy Land.

2. Through what does the path continue after the forest?
(a) A waterfall.
(b) A maze.
(c) A rock.
(d) A hedge.

3. In what position is the figure of the woman that Anodos finds after he finishes uncovering it with his knife?
(a) Lying on her side.
(b) Crouching.
(c) Sitting.
(d) Standing.

4. What is Anodos thinking about when he wakes up at the beginning of Chapter 1?
(a) A dream he had.
(b) His class schedule for the day.
(c) Writing thank-you notes for his birthday gifts.
(d) The events of his birthday.

5. When will Anodos make the discovery told to him by the small woman?
(a) The day after his birthday.
(b) Two days after his birthday.
(c) The day before his birthday.
(d) The day of his birthday.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Anodos find when he follows the stream at which he refreshed himself?

2. What do the keys open that Anodos receives as a birthday gift?

3. What are the flower fairies doing when Anodos sees them?

4. What does the woman at the farmhouse tell Anodos he must do before he can return home?

5. What does the woman in the small windowless hut tell Anodos when he tries to open a door inside the hut?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why must Anodos be careful about introducing new concepts to the people of Fairy Land?

2. Why do you think Anodos' father made provisions for Anodos to inherit the secretary desk?

3. A small woman granting wishes, secret compartments, and fairy godmothers are typical of what genre of literature?

4. How does the magic of the Fairy Palace benefit Anodos?

5. How does Anodos react when he sees the open field from the room in which he sleeps at the farmhouse?

6. What happens to Anodos as he becomes more frightened in the wood?

7. How does the discovery of a room inside the Fairy Palace that looks like his own bedroom comfort Anodos?

8. Why do you think the author has Anodos read a passage from the tale of King Arthur and his knights?

9. What does Anodos realize about the truth of what the small woman told him as he looks around his room?

10. Why do you think the old woman refuses to tell the truth of the woods to Anodos?

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