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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the note from Jane say that Mark gets when he wakes up in the banquet hall?
(a) That he should go to St. Anne's.
(b) That she misses him and wants him to come home.
(c) That she wants a divorce.
(d) That she knows someone who can help him repent.

2. What does Mark do after he defeats the urgings of the bad eldil while in the room Frost left him alone in?
(a) He speaks with the eldil.
(b) He repeats the words "I do not belong here" over and over.
(c) He goes to sleep.
(d) He tries desperately to escape.

3. What do Jane and Mr. Dimble find as they head away from the vagrant camp?
(a) Merlin.
(b) A path that leads to the well.
(c) Footprints that are not their own.
(d) A map.

4. What does the giantess in Jane's dream spread with her torch?
(a) Flowers.
(b) Light.
(c) Ice.
(d) Flames.

5. What is Mark's opinion of The Fairy after she tells him his wife is in danger?
(a) He trusts her implicitly.
(b) He thinks she is as beautiful as ever.
(c) He feels she is a bully.
(d) He knows that she is lying to him.

6. What is the old man's chief concern while being held at Belbury?
(a) Meditating.
(b) Healing.
(c) Sleeping.
(d) Eating.

7. What did Jane dream about the night that Mark saw the Head?
(a) She saw Mr. Ransom taking Mark away from Belbury.
(b) She saw the Fairy trying to kill Mark.
(c) She saw Mark meeting the Head.
(d) She saw Mr. Wither and The Fairy convincing Mark to kill Jane.

8. According to Merlin, if Jane had had a child, what would that child have done?
(a) Vanquished the College before it allowed the N.I.C.E. to take over.
(b) Kept humanity safe for a thousand years.
(c) Reigned as king, and been an assistant to Ransom.
(d) Known the secret to defeating the N.I.C.E.

9. What feeling does Mark have when Mr. Frost enters the room the police are holding him in?
(a) He feels relieved.
(b) He feels sick.
(c) He feels angry.
(d) He feels very afraid.

10. What effect does the coming of Mercury have on the people at St. Anne's?
(a) The temperature rises, and a sweet breeze wafts through the room.
(b) Knowledge and thoughts flow freely.
(c) Everyone finds himself with great courage.
(d) Causes everyone in the house to feel regal and proud.

11. Why must Ransom go to find Merlin?
(a) He has met Merlin before.
(b) He knows how to fight Merlin.
(c) He knows the language of the eldils.
(d) He is sworn to protect Jane.

12. What does Mark realize will happen to him if he does not comply with all Mr. Wither's demands?
(a) He will never be promoted.
(b) They will kill him.
(c) They will fire him.
(d) They will not allow him to be part of an exclusive group.

13. According to Ransom, what is the only way for the good side to win this upcoming battle between good and evil?
(a) To spread the word of what the N.I.C.E. are really up to.
(b) To wait for the N.I.C.E. to destroy themselves from within.
(c) To receive the Oyeresu themselves.
(d) To have Merlin conjur up black magic attacks.

14. What effect does the coming of Venus have on the people at St. Anne's?
(a) Causes everyone in the house to feel regal and proud.
(b) The temperature rises, and a sweet breeze wafts through the room.
(c) Everyone finds himself with great courage.
(d) Everyone in the house becomes very cold.

15. Why is Wither always so distracted?
(a) His intelligence is far beyond most people's and he is easily bored.
(b) He is a double agent with Belbury and St. Anne's.
(c) He has trained his body to complete tasks of the day without mental attention.
(d) He hears the voices of the Eldils constantly.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the bearded man on the stone table that Jane sees in her dreams?

2. What effect does the coming of Jove have on the people at St. Anne's?

3. What change occurs in Mr. Dimble as the search party for Merlin draws nearer to the fire?

4. What is significant about the fire that Mr. Deniston and Ransom see in the distance while driving to find Merlin?

5. What makes Mark lose his resolve to distrust anyone at the N.I.C.E.?

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