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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 are the first of the farm animals that approach the madwoman in Chapter 31?

2. What is the title of Chapter 42?

3. From what kind of bird are the feathers that the narrator describes the madwoman sitting among in Chapter 26?

4. What sustenance keeps Sister Ignatia alive?

5. How is the madwoman running from the Head Sister in Chapter 41?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Luna discover through her scrying device in Chapter 36?

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

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

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

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

9. How and why does Fyrian begin to transform in Chapter 39?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Xan's magic change as Luna's magic increases? Why? How is magic displayed in the novel through the way a person ages?

Essay Topic 2

Describe and discuss the character of Ethyne in The Girl Who Drank the Moon. When and where is Ethyne introduced? What role does she play in the plot of the novel? Is she a protagonist or antagonist? Why?

Essay Topic 3

What caused the most recent eruption of the volcano? How is this eruption described? What stopped the eruption from destroying the Protectorate and the world?

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