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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. Which of the following sayings does de Ayala rehearse to Perenelle?

2. At which of the following does Sophie lose count of the steps into the Catacombs of Paris?

3. Which of the following is the Disir’s war cry?

4. Which of the following places does Areop-Enap last remember being before imprisonment?

5. In which of the following does Perenelle note homunculi are grown?

Short Essay Questions

1. What reason does Flamel note for assigning Clarent to Josh?

2. What swords does Flamel identify as having been names for the “four great swords of power” (203)?

3. What plans had Sophie had for her year that have now been overset by her entry into the occult world?

4. Why, per Perenelle, do most ghosts lack feet?

5. Why, per Perenelle, does Dee capture Areop-Enap?

6. How are the Catacombs of Paris explained?

7. What is the nature of the damage Clarent inflicts on Nidhogg?

8. What justification does Sophie offer for her trust of Flamel and his associates?

9. Why does de Ayala note Alcatraz prisoners had not been able to escape by the way Dee brought his hidden prisoner to the island?

10. What is the ultimate fate of Nidhogg in the novel?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Scathach comments that “That is the curse of immortality: to watch the world change, to see everything you know wither” (102). Is her comment correct? That is, is it a curse? What in the novel and in experience suggests that it is so? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

The comment is made that Saint-Germain’s immortality, achieved through his own efforts and requiring no renewal, is particularly vexing to other immortals. What reason does the novel suggest for that vexation, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

Online commentaries note that the reliance of YA on teenage protagonists is, in some senses, an indictment of the adults present in YA literature. For what do the adults in The Magician deserve indictment, as indicated by the novel? How does the novel indicate the indictment is deserved?

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