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

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

3. Why is it so hard for Jane, Ransom and Mr. Deniston to find the fence that Jane dreamed about?
(a) It is raining.
(b) There are many different fences in Edgestow.
(c) There is a deep fog over everything.
(d) It is covered in smoke.

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

5. What does Jane think of the ancient biblical language that Ransom uses?
(a) She finds it cold and grating.
(b) She is surprised that she can understand it.
(c) She thinks it is beautiful.
(d) She thinks she has heard it somewhere before.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who offers to help Mark leave the N.I.C.E.?

2. What did Jane dream about the night that Mark saw the Head?

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

4. How does the man in ragged clothes get to St. Anne's?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is left of the N.I.C.E. at the end of the banquet?

4. What is Mark trying to do when his pen is knocked out of his hand by the Fairy?

5. Why is Jane prohibited from being part of the important meeting at St. Anne's?

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

7. What is so frustrating to Mark when he gets to his apartment after leaving Belbury?

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

9. Why are Mr. Frost and Mr. Wither trying to talk to the old man in Latin?

10. What kind of tests does Merlin give to Mr. Ransom to make sure he is the real leader at St. Anne's?

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