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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Merlin think Ransom and his followers should do to Jane?
(a) Let her rest.
(b) Protect her.
(c) Embrace her.
(d) Kill her.

2. What is Mark writing to Jane about when the Fairy makes him drop his pen?
(a) His new job.
(b) Staying at St. Anne's.
(c) His experience with the Head.
(d) Coming to Belbury with him.

3. Why is Jane left out of the very important house meeting at St. Anne's after she meets the leader?
(a) They want her to go to Belbury to fetch Mark during the meeting.
(b) They are suspicious of her true ties to Belbury.
(c) They need her to keep guard at the door while they confer.
(d) They do not want her to dream about the meeting.

4. When Mark wakes up in the banquet hall what does he see?
(a) Everything as it should be.
(b) The Head trying to calm the madness.
(c) The Fairy shooting Jules.
(d) A room full of dead people.

5. What makes Mark want to belong to the N.I.C.E. after he had made the decision to resist them?
(a) The excitement of Frost's offer.
(b) The bad eldils.
(c) He thinks of Jane.
(d) His desire to belong.

6. What effect does the coming of Jove have on the people at St. Anne's?
(a) Causes everyone in the house to feel regal and proud.
(b) Everyone in the house becomes very cold.
(c) The temperature rises, and a sweet breeze wafts through the room.
(d) Knowledge and thoughts flow freely.

7. What causes Mark to reflect on his dealings with the N.I.C.E. with great clarity after being brought back to Belbury?
(a) He is crippled with fear.
(b) He spent a long time away from Belbury.
(c) He was given a mind clarifying injection.
(d) He thinks he is about to be killed.

8. What was found at the site of Hengest's murder that implicates Mark?
(a) Mark's glove.
(b) A piece of paper with Mark and Jane's address.
(c) Jane's pocketbook.
(d) Mark's wallet.

9. Where has Mr. Maggs been since the beginning of the book?
(a) At Belbury.
(b) In prison.
(c) At Bracston College.
(d) Lost in Bragdon Wood.

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

11. Whose protection is Jane putting herself under as they search for Merlin?
(a) Mr. MacPhee's.
(b) Maleldil's.
(c) St. Anne's.
(d) Ransom's.

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

13. How is the Fairy able to give such a detailed report to Frost and Wither about what Mark has been doing in Edgestow?
(a) She made it all up to impress them.
(b) She has many agents in the area reporting to her.
(c) She followed him.
(d) She has telepathic powers.

14. How are Wither and Frost attempting to communicate with the man they think is Merlin?
(a) They are using hand motions.
(b) They are writing everything down.
(c) They are speaking old langauges like Latin.
(d) They are using the Head to translate.

15. Who is the real leader of St. Anne's?
(a) Mr. Dimble.
(b) The eldils.
(c) Jane.
(d) Mr. Ransom.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Frost say Mark's murder charge was?

2. What feeling does Mark have when Mr. Frost enters the room the police are holding him in?

3. What do Jane and Mr. Dimble find as they head away from the vagrant camp?

4. Why did Merlin not believe Ransom was the leader of St. Anne's at first?

5. Why does Mark decide to pretend to progress in his new lessons at the N.I.C.E. after he decides to find a way to leave the N.I.C.E.?

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