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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) Knowledge and thoughts flow freely.
(c) Causes everyone in the house to feel regal and proud.
(d) Everyone finds himself with great courage.

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

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

4. What do Mr. Frost and Mr. Wither fight about before Mark returns to Belbury in the hands of the police?
(a) The usefulness of Jane.
(b) The usefulness of Merlin.
(c) The usefulness of Mark.
(d) The usefulness of the Head.

5. Why does Mark return back to Belbury instead of leaving to get Jane?
(a) He hears that she is back at Belbury.
(b) He is summoned by the Head.
(c) The Fairy offers to fetch her for him.
(d) Mr. Wither meets him in a clearing in the wood and Mark is afraid to tell Wither he is leaving.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the naked man in the inner room call for when he awakens?

2. What does Mark agree to be trained in before Mr. Frost finally releases him and lets him eat?

3. How is the Fairy able to give such a detailed report to Frost and Wither about what Mark has been doing in Edgestow?

4. Who is the first person to be killed during the chaos of the banquet?

5. What does Frost receive while he is in the holding cell with Mark that makes him leave in a hurry?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Ransom say that God chose to use Merlin to help them at this time?

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

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

4. How did Jane unknowingly stop Mr. Frost from being able to telepathically see her dreams?

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

6. How is the Head able to speak?

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

8. What is found at the scene of Hingest's murder that makes Mark a suspect in the murder?

9. Why is Mark so hesitant about stomping on the crucifix in his training room?

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

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