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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. In "a paper star with a single bent corner," what nightmare is the person having?

2. What was Mirabel's incarnation before she was Mirabel?

3. How big are the bees that Zachary sees when he stands in the doorway of a life-size dollhouse in Book 6?

4. What type of cookies did Kat make after a man put a transmitter in her bag?

5. In the city that is not real and nothing is alive, what does Zachary find in the middle of a street?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the moon warn Dorian will happen when he leaves the inn?

2. What happens to Allegra and Dorian in Book 4?

3. What happens to Kat in the Afterward?

4. What does the Mirabel carved from ice do after Zachary finishes telling stories?

5. Why did Kat start writing a diary in longhand?

6. What does Zachary say about speech and books at the Harbor when Dorian wonders how he was able to read Fortunes and Fables?

7. What does Simon look like when Zachary is rescued by him?

8. What painting is Dorian looking at when Zachary finds him in Book 4?

9. Why does the Keeper say that he tried to save Dorian?

10. What photographs did Kat find and how did she describe them?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

A cliffhanger is used when an author stops the narrative and leaves readers wondering what will happen next. How does the author use cliffhangers in the book? What emotions do you feel when a chapter ends without a conclusion? Does a cliffhanger increase suspense or make you want to quit reading a story?

Essay Topic 2

Genre is a means of classifying a book. What is the genre or genres of the novel? Support your chosen genre with evidence from the book.

Essay Topic 3

Conflicts in a story can be man vs. man, man vs. nature, man vs. self and internal or external. Are the conflicts in the book mostly man vs. man, man vs. nature, or man vs. self? Are they internal or external conflicts? How do the conflicts affect the plot?

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