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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 does Botticelli claim to love?

2. Why couldn't Mig be a lady in waiting?

3. What is the Princess suddenly aware of?

4. What does the Princess ask Mig?

5. What is Roscuro's last name?

Short Essay Questions

1. What deal does the Princess make with Roscuro?

2. What does Despereaux see after he grabs hold of Botticelli's tail and is led through the dungeon?

3. What is the Princess dreaming about when Mig and Roscuro sneak into her room to take her to the dungeon at knife point?

4. How does Roscuro lose his tail?

5. What happens to Miggery Sow after her mother dies?

6. What does Miggery do in the castle?

7. What did Miggery see when she was seven years old, and how did it affect her?

8. What do Roscuro and Mig ask the Princess to do before they take her down to the dungeon?

9. What does Roscuro tell Mig that changes her life?

10. Why does Roscuro give up?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What behavior does Despereaux exhibit that is unusual? How do his siblings from former litters attempt to help him? What is the outcome of their help? Why is Despereaux seemingly unable to conform and do what is expected of him? What does he do instead?

Essay Topic 2

Where is Mig taken? What positions is she given? Which is first and why is she determined to be unsuitable for it? What positions do they try her in afterward? What happens in each of them? What position is she finally deemed suitable for? How does Mig feel about it and why?

Essay Topic 3

Who takes an interest in him almost immediately, and why? What does his savior want from him? Why does Despereaux ask to be released? What changes his mind? What is he told about the layout of the dungeon? How does his savior overcome this obstacle?

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