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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. How does Calliope know Oneiros?

2. Whom does Calliope beg to save her?

3. What color is the cat that the leader of the group mates with?

4. Who does Erasmus say used bezoars when they were alive?

5. What does the cat leading the meeting sit on top of?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the Siamese cat choose to do with her life after waking from her dream?

2. What happens to Madoc while he is at a newsstand?

3. What does the dream lord say to the Siamese cat about what the humans accomplished?

4. 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?

5. What happens to Madoc after he makes love to Calliope for the first time?

6. What does the Siamese cat learn from her dream?

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

8. What do Calliope and Oneiros talk about when they are together again?

9. What does the bird in the Siamese cat's dream tell her when the dream begins?

10. What does Madoc tell Felix to do when he is caring for him after his breakdown?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Foolishness was a very common folly highlighted in this collection of stories through the misdeeds of Madoc, Puck, and Rainie. What are some of the main examples of this, and what message was being sent through this blatant foolishness?

Essay Topic 2

These stories place in different settings. Describe some of these settings and how they affected the course of the plots. Why might Gaiman have chosen these particular places for the stories to take place?

Essay Topic 3

The characters in these stories all had their own goals and motivations. Select four characters and write their main motivation throughout the book and how this goal affected the characters around them.

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