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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book the Third.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter Twenty-six, which of the following leads the way through the woods?
(a) Cannoc.
(b) Jack.
(c) Answelica.
(d) Beatryce.

2. Which of the following illustrations is at the end of Chapter Two?
(a) A shorn-headed girl.
(b) A scrap of writing.
(c) A goat curled up with a girl.
(d) A mermaid hairbrush.

3. Book the First begins with which of the following?
(a) “Ideally, most ideally, the goat would go with her.”
(b) “Answelica was a goat with teeth that were the mirror of her soul.”
(c) “Brother Edik’s task in the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing was to illuminate.”
(d) “His dark robes gave off an oily sheen in the light from the candles that flickered around the throne of the king.”

4. When Edik reaches the inn in pursuit of Beatryce, what words does he see stricken out?
(a) “Once, there was a mermaid.”
(b) “I have killed.”
(c) “I thank you.”
(d) “I know nothing of anything.”

5. Chapter Six begins with which of the following?
(a) “What she saw when she awoke was sunlight streaming through one small window that was up very high.”
(b) “Brother Edik’s task in the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing was to illuminate.”
(c) “Brother Edik’s problems were compounded.”
(d) “In those moments when she was awake, she remembered.”

Short Answer Questions

1. From what does Brother Antoine make candy?

2. In Chapter Fifteen, the word “malodorous” most nearly means which of the following?

3. Chapter Eighteen begins with which of the following?

4. In Chapter Fourteen, what does Jack dream of wanting?

5. With which of the following does the novel’s epigraph begin?

(see the answer key)

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