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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. How does Antain plan to kill the Witch in Chapter 39?
(a) By drowning her.
(b) By hanging her.
(c) By slitting her throat.
(d) By shooting her with an arrow.

2. What does Luna recal Antain smelling like on the day she was taken in Chapter 44?
(a) Flowers.
(b) Sawdust.
(c) Money.
(d) Dirt.

3. What is the title of Chapter 38?
(a) "In Which the Fog Begins to Lift."
(b) "The Sisters of the Star."
(c) "The Queen of the Bog."
(d) "In Which a Swamp Monster Accidentally Falls in Love."

4. Who does the swallow encounter in the forest with Fyrian in Chapter 32?
(a) Sister Ignatia.
(b) Xan.
(c) Glerk.
(d) Antain.

5. How many of the Sisters of the Star follow Ethyne from the Tower when she departs in Chapter 38?
(a) Nine.
(b) Three.
(c) Six.
(d) Two.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Luna awaken on in Chapter 32?

2. What does the narrator say the volcano once had in it in Chapter 29?

3. What sound does Luna hear ringing through the night when she is running toward the man in Chapter 41?

4. What is revealed to be the madwoman's name in the end of the novel?

5. What food does Antain eat and offer to Xan in Chapter 37?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the madwoman learn from Sister Ignatia's conversation in Chapter 26?

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

3. Why does Sister Ignatia become depleted in the forest in Chapter 33? How does she find sustenance?

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

5. What is the symbolic significance of the sunlight that emerges in Chapter 38?

6. How do the paper birds solve the conflict in Chapter 43?

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

8. How are hope and sorrow juxtaposed in the novel?

9. What does Luna learn from the animated papers in Chapter 27?

10. Why does Xan ask for forgiveness in Chapter 44?

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