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

2. What does Xan consider that her life is made of in Chapter 28?

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

4. What name is Antain's son given in Chapter 28?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe and discuss the setting of Xan's home in the novel. Where is Xan's home located? What does it look like? How large is it?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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