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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. What do Taltos do when they go "wild"?
(a) They go berserk and kill whoever they meet.
(b) They mate indiscriminately.
(c) They kill themselves.
(d) They live away from all human and Taltos contact.

2. What does Marklin realize when he and Tommy are in a large room with other members?
(a) Marklin and Tommy are the only novices.
(b) Marklin is being ignored.
(c) Tommy has disappeared.
(d) Nothing in particular.

3. What do Ash and other Taltos eventually realize about humans?
(a) They could mate with Taltos.
(b) They would have to all be killed.
(c) They hated for no reason.
(d) They had much to offer.

4. What is in the envelope Mary Jane gives the doctor?
(a) Twenty dollar bills.
(b) Fifty dollar bills.
(c) Instructions and a map to find his way out of the swamp.
(d) A copy of the birth certificate for him to file.

5. What does Ash's group of Taltos do when they come to live among the humans?
(a) Keep their appearance altered magically.
(b) Nothing different.
(c) Invent human identities.
(d) Try to marry into the human race.

Short Answer Questions

1. What intrigued the Taltos about the human children?

2. What does Mona tell the doctor they need?

3. What makes a coupling Taltos pair end the coupling?

4. With whom does Ash leave the Taltos paradise?

5. What is something that would clue humans in to the fact that the Taltos are not human?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ash say about how the Taltos first lived peaceably with humans?

2. Who is Mary Jane bringing to her home on a boat and why does she need him?

3. Why did some Taltos leave the paradise, what happens to the paradise and how do the Taltos feel about life in their new location? Why did Ash worry about the Taltos?

4. What happens to Marklin and Tommy at the Motherhouse after the funeral for Stuart?

5. What was happening in some of the Taltos villages in relation to humans and how does Ash and his people respond to the happenings?

6. What is the problem between witches and the Talos, and what is the rumor about Taltos's blood and witches? How was Taltos blood introduced into the human race?

7. What is Morrigan doing while Doctor Jack is there and how does he meet her? What is he told about Morrigan?

8. How is Mona doing when she and Mary Jane arrive at the dock and what does she tell Mary Jane?

9. What does Mona tell Mary Jane about her baby and what do they decide to do?

10. What do Michael and Yuri talk about on the phone?

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