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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 was Glerk's answer when Luna once asked him what happened to people when they die?
(a) "They burn in the volcano" (245).
(b) "They cross into the magical world" (245).
(c) "They enter the Circle" 245).
(d) "The Bog" (245).

2. What does the narrator describe the madwoman doing with the feathers in Chapter 26?
(a) Turning them into paper.
(b) Making a dress from them.
(c) Using them to dust.
(d) Making a pillow from them.

3. Ethyne demands the answer of what question of her friend who is a Sister of the Star in Chapter 34?
(a) "Where is the Sister?" 276-277).
(b) "Where are you going?" (276-277).
(c) "Does the tiger prowl?" (276-277).
(d) "Where is my husband?" (276-277).

4. How does Luna save the Protectorate in Chapter 46?
(a) By lifting the city into the air.
(b) By plugging up the volcano with a dragon.
(c) By creating bubbles over the city.
(d) By washing the city with the ocean.

5. What are described as appearing in Luna's footsteps in Chapter 32?
(a) Flowers.
(b) Diamonds.
(c) Moonbeams.
(d) Pearls.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say the madwoman turned her bed into for a time in Chapter 26?

2. What is described as "the most funamental - and yet least understood - element of the known universe" (210) in the book that Luna discovers in Chapter 25?

3. Who is chosen to murder Antain in Chapter 26?

4. What bird does Xan decide to transform herself into in Chapter 28?

5. Who leaves behind a poem for Luna in the end of the novel?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Luna find the castle and enter it in Chapter 25?

2. What happens when Antain encounters Xan in Chapter 33?

3. What does Luna discover about her wounds in Chapter 32? What do you think this implies?

4. What happens when Sister Ignatia attempts to coerce the madwoman to give over her boots in Chapter 40?

5. Why does Glerk appear to Xan in Chapter 47? Where do they go together?

6. How does the narrator describe the volcano's last eruption in Chapter 29?

7. Why does Xan call out to Luna to go away in Chapter 41?

8. Whose identities are revealed to Luna in Chapter 44? Why?

9. What are Luna's objectives and obstacles on her journey in Chapter 30?

10. Why does Ethyne become enraged with the Grand Elder Gherland in Chapter 34?

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