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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part One: The Finding; The Sign-Seeker.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What emotion describes how Will is feeling when he wakes on Midwinter Day?
(a) Contentment.
(b) Terror.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Sadness.

2. According to Merriman, how long ago did the kings of England preserve the forests that the Dark inhabit?
(a) 200 years ago.
(b) 500 years ago.
(c) 300 years ago.
(d) 1000 years ago.

3. What does Will hear before his world changes to another time?
(a) Music.
(b) Laughter.
(c) A prayer.
(d) Screaming.

4. What does the author mean when she writes, "He was crystal-clear awake, in a Midwinter Day that had been waiting for him to wake into it since the day he had been born..."?
(a) It means Will is meeting his destiny.
(b) It means Will is meeting his true father.
(c) It means Will is a wizard.
(d) It means Will is escaping evil.

5. Where is Will's bedroom located?
(a) In the attic.
(b) With one of his brothers.
(c) In a guestroom.
(d) In the basement.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Will's family when he arrives back home from the other time?

2. What does Merriman accuse Will of doing every spring at Huntercombe Manor?

3. According to Merriman, the next part of Will's quest depends on whom?

4. What does Merriman tell Will about time for the Old Ones?

5. What does the iron ornament do to Will's fingers?

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