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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of bones does Sister Ignatia use to make a scrying device in Chapter 33?

2. What are Glerk's thoughts on violence, according to the narrator in Chapter 45?

3. What sustenance keeps Sister Ignatia alive?

4. What was Xan's father's profession, according to the narrator in Chapter 33?

5. Whom does Fyrian refer to as delicate in the end of Chapter 45?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Ethyne announce to the Sisters of the Star in Chapter 38?

3. What does Xan recall of her childhood in Chpater 33?

4. How does the madwoman spy on Sister Ignatia in Chapter 26?

5. How does Luna manage to overthrow the Sorrow Eater in Chapter 45?

6. How is the significance of the Bog described in Chapter 48?

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

8. What information does Xan learn from Antain in Chapter 37?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the Council of Elders. Who leads the Council? What role does the Council play in the Protectorate? What is Antain's association with the Council?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the narrative style of The Girl Who Drank the Moon. From whose perspective is the majority of the novel related? What chapters differ in terms of narrator? Is the story related in the present or past tense?

Essay Topic 3

Describe and analyze the character of Xan in The Girl Who Drank the Moon. How old is Xan? How does she encounter Luna? Why does she take Luna in to raise herself?

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