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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the poem, what color is death?
(a) Black.
(b) Red.
(c) Gray.
(d) White.

2. Who refuses to reveal her relationship with Dream?
(a) Mustardseed.
(b) Titania.
(c) Bast.
(d) Duma.

3. Who is the first recurring character to approach Dream?
(a) Rosie.
(b) Abel.
(c) Hob.
(d) Cain.

4. What color are Titania's eyes?
(a) Brown.
(b) Green.
(c) Blue.
(d) Gray.

5. What term is used to describe the bird's way of thinking?
(a) Self-centered.
(b) Celebratory.
(c) Selfless.
(d) Melancholy.

6. What is wrong with the girl?
(a) She is lost.
(b) She is crying.
(c) She is injured.
(d) She is bleeding.

7. What is the creature sent to retrieve?
(a) Coffin.
(b) Dream.
(c) Book.
(d) Sword.

8. Who asks about the missing person?
(a) Destiny.
(b) Death.
(c) Delirium.
(d) Dream.

9. What is wrong with Mervyn?
(a) Lost.
(b) Angry.
(c) Drunk.
(d) Hurt.

10. What is the first animal pictured in the story?
(a) Bat.
(b) Dog.
(c) Bird.
(d) Wolf.

11. What was the name of Calliope's son?
(a) Orpheus.
(b) Achilles.
(c) Rasputin.
(d) Archimedes.

12. What is the name of the man who sits staring out the library window?
(a) Daniel.
(b) Cain.
(c) Lucien.
(d) Alexander.

13. What famous author is quoted?
(a) Browning.
(b) Twain.
(c) Shakespeare.
(d) Hemingway.

14. Who writes the closing poem?
(a) Wordsworth.
(b) Flecker.
(c) Nash.
(d) Twain.

15. Calliope refers to Dream by which name?
(a) Morpheus.
(b) Dream.
(c) Lord Shaper.
(d) Oneiros.

Short Answer Questions

1. Dream is presenting itself as a reincarnation of which former character?

2. What creature is supposed to be extinct?

3. What color is the curtain?

4. Rosie tells her brother that she is _____.

5. What type of instrument is mentioned in the poem?

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