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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 does Aelric spend his time doing instead of preparing for battle in Chapter 23?

2. Who is the first person to attack the mercenary team from the moonbeam when they first approach Central Park?

3. What kind of animals does the mercenary team first kill when they approach Central Park?

4. How many warriors do the MacLeod's send to find Heather and Morag in New York?

5. What kind of fairies attacked the fairies in Central Park for trying to take whiskey?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Dinnie and Kerry's first date described in the book?

2. How does the group of mercenaries begin their walk to New York from Cornwall?

3. Why do Heather and Morag begin fighting in Chapter 31?

4. Why is the fairy Brannoc depressed in Chapter 15?

5. What happens when Kerry and Morag go to Tompkin's Square in Chapter 16?

6. How does Morag learn how to fix her broken violin in Chapter 25?

7. How is Johnny Thunders able to descend from heaven?

8. What does Dinnie do after knocking Kerry to the ground in Chapter 20?

9. Why does Kerry tell Dinnie she believes to be the reason for Heather and Morag keeping the Macleod Banner in Chapter 29?

10. What does Aelric fail to do before his battle with King Tala that gets him stuck in a castle?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast the portrayal of the different groups of fairies in the book that include the Black Fairies, the Italian Fairies, the Chinese Fairies, and others. What reason did the author have for including such varying groups of fairies within the same species and are there any stereotypes present in the portrayal of these groups?

Essay Topic 2

Suffering is a concept shown throughout the book, namely in the character Kerry.

Part 1) How does the author present suffering in the book in characters like Kerry, suffering in health, and Aelric, suffering from forbidden love?

Part 2) What lessons do the characters that suffer appear to learn from their experiences?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the portrayal of art in the book. What role does art play in the book and what reason might the author have for portraying it in this manner?

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