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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 Oneiros's nickname?

2. How do the humans overcome the cats in the former world?

3. What color eyes does the dream lord have?

4. What does the leader cat learn the power of during her dream after she is separated from her kittens?

5. What is a trichinobezoar made out of?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Felix find when he gets to Madoc's house for the first time?

2. How did Erasmus Fry die?

3. What happens when the cats get to the graveyard in "A Dream of a Thousand Cats"?

4. What made the Siamese cat hate her owners?

5. In "A Dream of a Thousand Cats", what do the kitten and the cat talk about after the owners leave the house for the night?

6. How did the humans overcome the cats in the former world?

7. What does Madoc do to express all the ideas that came to him?

8. What does Madoc accuse Calliope of doing to him, and how does she respond?

9. What does the Siamese cat see when she gets to the cave in her dream?

10. What happens as the kitten is leaving the graveyard?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Despair was a theme that was placed in a number of sensitive places in these stories. What are some of these places, and what role did despair play in this book?

Essay Topic 2

Friendship is a strong theme throughout the book but appeared most especially in Calliope. Where are some places that this theme appears, and how do the characters touched by it react? How do certain friendships change over the course of the book, and what causes these changes?

Essay Topic 3

Magic and supernatural powers were interwoven into each of these stories. What are some major examples of this, and how did this change the feel and progression of the plots?

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