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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 is written at the bottom of the drawing of the woman in the tower with the bird in Chapter 31?

2. Where does Luna offer the crow to sleep along the journey in Chapter 39?

3. Who is said to have begun maintaining the library at the Tower in Chapter 46?

4. What phrase is above the door that Luna chooses to enter in Chapter 25 (207)?

5. Who tells Luna to run in the end of Chapter 41?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What are Xan's objectives and obstacles in Chapter 32?

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

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

5. How does the madwoman find Xan's home in Chapter 31? What does she find there?

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

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

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

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

10. What does the madwoman do when she sees Luna in Chapter 42?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Luna manage to overcome the Sorrow Eater and protect the Protectorate from the volcano? What obstacles does she overcome in doing so? Who helps Luna?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the theme of stories and storytelling in The Girl Who Drank the Moon. How does the author develop this theme through characters and actions in the novel? How is the theme developed through symbolism and imagery?

Essay Topic 3

What leads to the madwoman's madness? How is the scene described when she is taken away to the Tower? What causes her to be taken to the Tower?

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