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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the sky-ship fishing for?
(a) Clouds.
(b) Rainbows.
(c) Rain.
(d) Lightning bolts.

2. Who tells Yvaine what will happen to her if she crosses the wall?
(a) A wood nymph.
(b) The leaf.
(c) Semele.
(d) The slave woman.

3. Where does Semele transform Tristran back to a human?
(a) The market place.
(b) The sea port.
(c) The meadow.
(d) The gap in the wall.

4. What does Tristran do before running to Primus after he sees the unicorn?
(a) Listens to his leaf.
(b) Checks for his sword.
(c) Hides the ale.
(d) Thanks the unicorn.

5. How do Tristran and the star eat as they travel towards Wall?
(a) Tristran takes jobs.
(b) They steal it.
(c) They beg for it.
(d) The star sings.

6. What obligation does the former bird remind Yvaine of?
(a) To protect her protector.
(b) To explain her presence.
(c) To shed her light.
(d) To return the topaz to its rightful owner.

7. Whom does Victoria choose to marry?
(a) Tristran.
(b) Tommy Forester.
(c) Mr. Monday.
(d) Mr. Borgio.

8. Why does the man in the carriage decide to take Tristran as a passenger?
(a) His dead brothers like him.
(b) He looks to his runes.
(c) He talks of the star.
(d) He hears a tree tell him to do so.

9. What is Tristran told to protect in his dream after the star leaves?
(a) The moon's daughter.
(b) His happiness.
(c) His place in this world.
(d) The key to the universe.

10. What does Tristran do to help the carriage?
(a) Removes a branch from the path.
(b) Defends it from wolves.
(c) Mends a broken wheel.
(d) Pushes it out of a mud hole.

11. What does Tristran do when he sees a bird chained in a bush?
(a) Talks to it.
(b) Catches it.
(c) Sets it free.
(d) Nothing.

12. What does Tristran recognize about the slave girl?
(a) Her hair.
(b) Her voice.
(c) Her eyes.
(d) Her hands.

13. What is the star's name?
(a) Elaine.
(b) Yllana.
(c) Yvaine.
(d) Evalla.

14. What does Septimus find where the inn had been?
(a) A pile of rubble.
(b) A burned house.
(c) A deep hole.
(d) A broken chariot.

15. How does the star get inside the inn?
(a) She uses her crutch.
(b) The woman and her daughter help her in.
(c) The unicorn leads her in.
(d) The man carries her in.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Septimus die?

2. What happens when the unicorn puts his horn in what the innkeeper brought for home?

3. How does Yvaine feel when she hears Victoria is getting married?

4. What is the only magic Septimus possesses?

5. What do the six ghosts tell Septimus to do when he finds Primus's body?

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