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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. Who enters Harry's room and slashes Ron's bed curtains to shreds?

2. How many times does Hermione turn her time-turner before she sends herself and Harry back in time.

3. What does Harry see outside the night before the Quidditch Cup finals?

4. How are Lupin and Sirius tied up before being taken out of the Shack?

5. How did the unwelcome visitor enter Harry's room when his bed curtains were slashed?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Harry hear before passing out when the dementors are near him?

2. Who pretends to be dementors at the quidditch match between Gryffindor and Ravenclaw?

3. What does Peter use to transform himself into a rat?

4. What does Hermione do to Malfoy when he jokes about Buckbeak getting executed?

5. What happens when Snape tries to use the Marauder's Map?

6. Why did Peter Pettigrew cut off his own finger?

7. Where does Harry wake up after passing out by the lake with all the dementors?

8. What happened to Lupin as a young child that changed the rest of his life?

9. What does Trelawney tell Harry will happen that night as he is leaving his Divination exam?

10. Who walks into the room just as Lupin and Black finish telling Harry their story at the Shrieking Shack?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What role does symbolism play in the story and where does it appear? How is the plot altered by the presence of these symbols?

Essay Topic 2

Peter Pettigrew uses many different lies to acheive his horrible goals. What are some of these and how did they poison the characters who heard them?

Essay Topic 3

Why might Rowling have allowed Pettigrew to live at the end of the book? What kind of message does this send and do you think he should have been killed? Why or why not?

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