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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 word from Chapter 13 refers to the practice of protecting oneself against a poison by gradually self-administering non-lethal amounts?
(a) Vaccination.
(b) Arbitration.
(c) Innoculation.
(d) Mithridatism.

2. What does Jude do to protect herself from Valerian in Chapter 16?
(a) She kicks him.
(b) She punches him.
(c) She stabs him.
(d) She drowns him.

3. In the first lines of "I'd Love to Be a Fairy's Child," the narrator states, "Children born of fairy stock / Never need for" what (I)?
(a) "Building blocks."
(b) "Shirt or frock."
(c) "Blade or stalk."
(d) "Grass or rock."

4. Who says in Chapter 11, "Prophecy is for hags and small folk" (92)?
(a) Locke.
(b) Cardan.
(c) Taryn.
(d) Valerian.

5. What is the name of the son that Madoc and Oriana had after marrying?
(a) Dain.
(b) Cardan.
(c) Locke.
(d) Oak.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old are Jade and Tamryn in the opening of the Prologue?

2. What does Taryn gather by the Lake of Masks on her way home from lecture in Chapter 5?

3. What color does Valerian generally wear?

4. Between the two sides who participate in the mock war for the Summer Tournament, one protects a cloak made from the hide of a yellow deer and the other side protects a cloak made from the hide of what animal?

5. Who answers the door when the stranger knocks in the Prologue?

Short Essay Questions

1. What conflict emerges between Jude and Taryn in Chapter 9?

2. How are the humans that Jude encounters in Chapter 12 described?

3. What does Jude observe that lends light to the relationship between Prince Cardan and Prince Balekin in Chapter 12?

4. What is at the heart of the three stories that Jude relates in Chapter 6? Why does she say she does not like these stories?

5. Where do Jude, Taryn, and Vivi go in Chapter 8? How do they travel there?

6. What literary allusion appears in Chapter 12? What is its significance?

7. What is one example of foreshadowing in Chapter 9 and what does it foretell?

8. What does the tournament mean to Jude? Why?

9. Why does Jude eat the faerie fruit in Chapter 11? What effect does it have?

10. Who does Vivi introduce Taryn and Jude to in Chapter 8? How is this character described?

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