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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the first words Bibspeak says to Jack?
(a) “Should we interfere with fate?”
(b) “What if you are?”
(c) “That is exactly right.”
(d) “I am Jack Dory!”

2. Chapter Three begins with which of the following?
(a) “Brother Edik’s task in the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing was to illuminate.”
(b) “She dreamed.”
(c) “A child. Next to the goat.”
(d) “Answelica stood next to the child in a ferocious, protective pose.”

3. In Chapter Eight, which of the following names does Beatryce posit for Answelica before learning the goat’s true name?
(a) Morehouse.
(b) Lesslich.
(c) Heimlich.
(d) Morelich.

4. Book the Second begins with which of the following?
(a) “I will go and ask your mother a few questions, too.”
(b) “How could anyone bear it?”
(c) “Jack Dory belonged to no one.”
(d) “The request that Jack Dory brought to the monastery was deemed by all the monks.”

5. Chapter Sixteen begins with which of the following?
(a) “And so it was that Jack Dory made his way to the monastery.”
(b) “She should not have told him that she could write.”
(c) “The request that Jack Dory brought to the monastery was deemed by all the monks.”
(d) “You will go with Jack Dory.”

6. Which of the following illustrations precedes Book the First?
(a) A shorn-headed girl.
(b) A goat curled up with a girl.
(c) A mermaid hairbrush.
(d) A goat headbutting a monk.

7. Which of the following does the soldier lying abed in Jack’s village have on his face?
(a) Bruises.
(b) Pimples.
(c) Scars.
(d) Pustules.

8. Chapter Two begins with which of the following?
(a) “All of this took place during a time of war.”
(b) “A child. Next to the goat.”
(c) “Answelica stood next to the child in a ferocious, protective pose.”
(d) “She dreamed.”

9. Which of the following is illustrated in Chapter Eighteen?
(a) A travel bag.
(b) Jack with a sword.
(c) A mermaid.
(d) A seahorse.

10. Chapter Seven 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 problems were compounded.”
(c) “He illuminated the letter B.”
(d) “In those moments when she was awake, she remembered.”

11. Chapter Twenty begins with which of the following?
(a) “Jack Dory sat under the eaves of Granny Bibspeak’s hut.”
(b) “But she was afraid.”
(c) “Slowly, Jack Dory lowered the stool legs to the ground.”
(d) “Beatryce held herself straighter.”

12. In Chapter Fifteen, the word “malodorous” most nearly means which of the following?
(a) Good-smelling.
(b) Strong-smelling.
(c) Bad-smelling.
(d) Faint-smelling.

13. Chapter Eleven begins with which of the following?
(a) “The day after her fever broke.”
(b) “Answelica was a goat with teeth that were the mirror of her soul.”
(c) “She tried not to think about what she could not remember.”
(d) “All of this took place during a time of war.”

14. At the end of Chapter Twelve, a prophecy is noted that a girl child will come and do which of the following?
(a) Unseat a king and bring about a great change.
(b) Be free of blemish and unstained.
(c) Slay the one whom no man can kill.
(d) Become the mother of kings and begin a new dynasty.

15. Which of the following does Edik pack for Beatryce’s departure with Jack?
(a) Copper.
(b) Steel.
(c) Flint.
(d) Quartz.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what does the soldier lying abed in Jack’s village begin his testimony?

2. Chapter Eighteen begins with which of the following?

3. The word “antipathies” is most similar in meaning to which of the following?

4. To which of the following is the soldier who had lain abed in Jack’s village compared?

5. In Chapter Nine, what is noted as being illegal?

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