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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. The day after Christmas, James tells Will that the snow has broken what in the kitchen?
(a) The door.
(b) The window.
(c) The screen.
(d) The sleigh.

2. What reason does Hawkin give for betraying the Light to the Dark?
(a) He is scared of Merriman.
(b) He is afraid of the Lady.
(c) He is afraid of death.
(d) He is angry with Merriman.

3. Windsor Castle is located where?
(a) The woods.
(b) Outside of the manor.
(c) The Great Park.
(d) The moat.

4. What song are the people singing after the church service is over?
(a) O come all ye faithful.
(b) Silent Night.
(c) O Little Town of Bethlehem.
(d) O Tannenbaum.

5. By opening the door between the Dark and the Walker, what does Will allow the Walker to gain?
(a) Power.
(b) Love.
(c) Peace.
(d) Evil.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the river that the king of the last sign sailed in?

2. Which of the two things of power have not been found?

3. What is the term for the rapid urgent collecting, which summons the hounds?

4. What does Will do to Mr. Beaumont and Paul to protect them from the Dark?

5. What is Will, an Old One, fighting for?

Short Essay Questions

1. For Will, what does the music that Paul plays on the flute mean?

2. What is the importance of the Walker's whereabouts being revealed to Will by a rook--an animal of the Dark?

3. How does Merriman use the weather to help Will with the Walker, and to help him against the Dark?

4. Why is Mary's kidnapping a test for Will?

5. Why is the rain significant to the villagers and to Will?

6. What does the Lady mean when she says, "'Break the power of the cold. Stop the snow and cold and frost. Release this country from the hold of the Dark. All with the next of the circle, the Sign of Fire'"?

7. Why is the Dark's strike at the king's burial ship fitting?

8. What significant acts occur during the late night of Christmas Day?

9. What is unique about the book of Gramayre?

10. Why is Hawkin amazed that the Rider has dropped him?

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