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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. Who is Zephaniah?

2. What couple enters where the Anpu are?

3. Who does Perenelle try to calm?

4. What is wrong with John Dee?

5. Who are the Sack Men following?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Sophie at first believe when she wakes in her aunt's house and what does she do when she realizes otherwise?

2. What does Billy the Kid ask Josh and how does he come to think he may have an answer to the question?

3. How does Sophie feel about Perenelle and what does Perenelle tell Sophie?

4. What happens to the police officers outside a building which Dee and Virginia approach and how do Dee, Dare and Josh feel about it?

5. What is Nicholas Flamel's condition and what does Perenelle want to do?

6. How does Sophie feel about Perenelle using Sophie's aura, and what does Sophie decide?

7. About what do Machiavelli and Billy the Kid feel conflicted?

8. What does Dee tell Josh to do on their way to Alcatraz and how do Josh's memories help him in this task?

9. What does Scathach contemplate in their volcanic prison, and what does Joan of Arc feel?

10. How does Dr. John Dee change Josh and why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Nicholas Flamel is in some ways a larger-than-life hero. Despite incredible odds, he usually comes out on top, in this book and in the others in the series. Discuss the following:

1. Does having a larger-than-life hero make that person less of a hero? In other words, which is more admirable--a hero who ultimately always "lands on his feet," or one who strives against impossible odds and doesn't succeed?

2. Does a character have to be successful in order to be a hero? Explain your answer.

3. Choose one other character besides Rand who you might call a hero/heroine and explain why you choose that person.

4. Does every work of fiction have to have a hero? Explain your answer.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the following:

1. What do you think are the characteristics of a successful novel?

2. Analyze and discuss Warlock based upon the criteria you decide upon in #1 and judge if The Warlock is a successful novel.

3. Do you think the criteria for a successful novel should be different if it is written for adults versus young adults? Why or why not? Would most adults consider Warlock a successful novel? What about young teens?

Essay Topic 3

Often, authors will write about "what they know," and sometimes knowing a little about the author makes the books more interesting. Discuss the following:

1. Research and give a brief biographical sketch of Michael Scott.

2. What in Scott's background may have helped him in writing The Warlock? What may have influenced the way he depicts various characters and scenes?

3. Do you think there is always some of the author's own life in his/her novels? Why or why not? Give examples.

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