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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following are noted to be the best tourists in Thornfield?

2. Which of the following does Margaret consider serving the Owenses?

3. What is the name of the taxi driver in Thornfield?

4. Of what does Sally’s burnt hair sacrifice smell?

5. Ink made from which of the following is found in the Owens Grimoire?

Short Essay Questions

1. What reasons does Ian have, publicly and privately, for quartering the Owenses in an inn in Thornfield?

2. What rites are needed to join the Society of the Horseman’s Grip and Word?

3. What reasons are given for Ariel’s choice of scent?

4. What is the lesson Sally and Gillian take from their experiences (377)?

5. What does Lockland claim is the purpose of magic (257)?

6. Why are the more distant Owens relations disappointed in Ian?

7. How does Vincent attempt to summon the ghost of his late beloved?

8. What is on the menu at the inn in Thornfield when Lockland’s curse takes hold (313)?

9. What herbs and spices does Sally include in her pie crust?

10. What does the Owens, who cast the curse on the family, note must be done to lift the curse?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does the novel define magic? What in the novel supports the definition? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

Assuming that The Book of Magic should be standard reading for a given class and level, what class and what level? Why that class and why that level? What in the text suggests as much, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

The narrator comments that “Curses are like knots, the more you struggle to be free, the tighter they become, whether they’re made of rope or spite or desperation [sic]” (4-5). Does the novel bear out the comment? How or how not?

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