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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 is the most haunted house in Britain called?

2. How do Ron, Harry, and Hermione hide while Buckbeak is being executed?

3. Who sent Harry his Firebolt broom?

4. What is it called when the dementors suck the life out of their victims?

5. Who told Voldemort where the Potters were on the night that they were killed?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who told James Potter to change his secret keeper?

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

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

6. What does Sirius Black send Harry as he boards the Hogwarts Express?

7. What is an animagus?

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

9. Who wins the Quidditch Cup for Harry's third year at Hogwarts?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Friendship is a strong theme throughout the book. Where are some places that this theme appears and how do the characters touched by it react? How do certain friendships change over the course of the book and what causes these changes?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Fear is a common theme in this book, presented a number of times by a number of characters. What are some of these instances and how does fear affect the characters in the book?

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