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

2. What do the Taltos do to a child born of the mating between a Taltos and human that survives?
(a) Ignore the child and the human must care for it.
(b) Kill the child.
(c) Force the child to live among the Taltos but not accept it as a Taltos.
(d) Accept the child into the Taltos.

3. How did the Taltos view monogamy?
(a) Ash does not mention the concept of monogamy.
(b) Some chose it and some did not.
(c) It was the only way the Taltos legitimized their coupling.
(d) It was unheard of among them.

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

5. What does Mona confide in about to Mary Jane?
(a) That Michael is not the father of Mona's baby.
(b) That Morrigan is Taltos.
(c) That Morrigan is not Taltos.
(d) That Rowan is also pregnant.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to the Taltos island?

2. What do the humans call the Taltos when they first begin a village among the humans?

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

4. Where does Mary Jane suggest they go?

5. Where do Ash and the other Taltos with him eventually settle?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Ash hear about Christianity and how does he feel about that religion?

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

3. Who are the Little People?

4. What does Doctor Jack insist upon and what information do they give him?

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

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

7. What does Granny tell Mona about walking babies?

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

9. What does Rowan tell Ash about a Taltos female, and what is Ash's reaction to the news?

10. 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?

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