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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. When Anodos awakens the morning after he sleeps in a room identical to his room at home, what does he hope to discover as he explores the Fairy Palace?
(a) How to get rid of the shadow.
(b) Someone to talk to.
(c) How to get home.
(d) The secret library.

2. What can Anodos sense the presence of, but not see, inside the Fairy Palace?
(a) The Ash tree.
(b) The goblin-fairies.
(c) A higher order of fairies.
(d) The shadow.

3. What is growing from the carpet in Anodos' room?
(a) Daisies.
(b) Tall grass.
(c) Water lilies.
(d) Seaweed.

4. What do the goblin-fairies do when they see the shadow?
(a) They allow Anodos to pass without mocking him.
(b) They allow Anodos to pass without scaring him.
(c) They play a funeral march on their trumpets.
(d) They run and hide.

5. What does the woman at the farmhouse tell Anodos he must do before he can return home?
(a) Learn the magic words that will destroy the Ash tree.
(b) Travel through Fairy Land.
(c) Read the entire tale of Sir Galahad.
(d) Save someone from the Maiden of the Alder.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Anodos' bed as his room changes?

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

3. What piece of furniture does the structure resemble that Anodos finds as he continues on the path?

4. Why doesn't Anodos close the door to the room in the small windowless hut when the shadow comes out of the room?

5. What part of Anodos' room is affected by the flow from the wash basin?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the relationship between the borders of Anodos' real world and the borders of his fantasy world?

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

3. How do Anodos and his shadow seem to influence each other?

4. What are the consequences Anodos suffers when he ignores the warning of the knight in rusty armor about beautiful women in the forest?

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

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

7. What is unusual about the condition of the footpath Anodos notices in his room?

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

9. What comment is the author making about Phantastes when he describes Anodos' reaction to the books he reads in the Fairy Palace library?

10. What happens to Anodos when he eats the fruits of the woods?

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