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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 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.

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

3. What old power are the evil eldils seeking?
(a) Merlin.
(b) Ransom.
(c) The good eldils.
(d) Magic.

4. What does Mark want from Mr. Dimble when he sees him at the college?
(a) A ride back to Belbury.
(b) Legal advice.
(c) Money for a train ticket.
(d) Jane's address.

5. What does Jane NOT find at the campsite in Bragdon Wood?
(a) Bedclothes.
(b) A campfire.
(c) Merlin.
(d) A donkey.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was MacPhee doing while Ransom was answering Merlin's riddles?

2. What do Straik and Wither do to Filostrato when Filostrato is taken to meet the Head?

3. Why must Ransom go to find Merlin?

4. Where is King Arthur's ring according to Merlin's riddle to Ransom?

5. What does the note from Jane say that Mark gets when he wakes up in the banquet hall?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the Head able to speak?

2. What does Merlin do when Ransom successfully passes all the tests Merlin gives to see if Ransom truly is the leader of St. Anne's?

3. What is so significant about Mr. Frost and Mr. Wither fighting about Jane?

4. What does the old man feel about the man who stole his clothes?

5. What do Jane and Mr. Dimble find at the campsite in Bragdon Wood?

6. What happens when Mark punches Wither in the face?

7. What does Mr. Dimble want to help Mark do after Mark seeks him out looking for Jane?

8. What is Mark thinking when Mr. Frost walks into the room the police are keeping him held in?

9. What is the old man's major goal while being held captive at Belbury?

10. What does Mr. Frost receive that causes him to leave Mark in the holding room with no warning?

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