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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 shocks Marklin about the body in the casket?
(a) It is Stuart.
(b) It is not human or Taltos.
(c) It is Tessa.
(d) It is mutilated.

2. What does Granny say usually happens to a walking baby?
(a) She has never heard of a walking baby.
(b) They are worshipped.
(c) They are killed.
(d) They are sent to a special school.

3. What happened to human women who mated with Taltos males?
(a) They never mated with Taltos males.
(b) They left their kind to live with the Taltos.
(c) They became insane.
(d) They died.

4. What is one thing Ash worried about for his group of Taltos?
(a) The humans would mate with them.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Quarrels among them.
(d) The humans would kill them.

5. What do the Taltos do when a member of their race dies?
(a) They burn the body.
(b) They couple to create another Taltos.
(c) They send the body back to their home planet ot be revived.
(d) They kill a human to journey in spirit with the Taltos.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to the Taltos island?

2. Who does Mary Jane say Morrigan is in relation to the baby Mary Jane is holding?

3. What does the doctor insist upon doing?

4. What is the clacking noise the doctor hears as he is preparing to leave?

5. What is in the envelope Mary Jane gives the doctor?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Ash begin the story of the Taltos?

3. What does Ash say about Taltos traits and where did the Taltos develop? What usually caused a Taltos to die?

4. How did Taltos couple and what kind of romantic relationships did they have?

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

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

7. What does Ash propose to Rowan, what is her reply and what does Ash say he will share with them?

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

9. What does Rowan tell Ash about Michael's fears about telling Ash the truth?

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

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