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//The Magic Thief// By Sarah Prineas

1. In the book //The Magic Thief//, what did the boy Conn steal from the wizard Nevery? His locus magicalicus (p. 3)

2. In the book //The Magic Thief//, at the beginning of the book when Nevery catches Conn stealing his locus magicalicus what is the first thing Nevery says to him? Nevery says “you look hungry” (p. 4)

3. In the book //The Magic Thief//, what did Nevery do after Conn stole his locus magicalicus? He bought him some food (pp. 4-5)

4. In the book //The Magic Thief//, what happens to Nevery’s locus magicalicus after Conn stole it and they went to eat dinner? The stone started to turn to ice and began freezing Conn until Nevery said a spell to release it (p. 8)

5. In the book //The Magic Thief//, why did Nevery become interested in Conn? Because the locus magicalicus did not kill him when he stole it (p. 10)

6. In the book //The Magic Thief//, who wrote to Nevery to ask him for help? The wizard Brumbee (pp. 11-12)

7. In the book //The Magic Thief//, what was the problem in Wellmet that Brumbee wrote to Nevery about? The magical level was decreasing (pp. 11-12)

8. In the book //The Magic Thief//, what job does Conn think Nevery has hired him for? His apprentice (p. 10)

9. In the book //The Magic Thief//, what job does Nevery think he has hired Conn for? His servant (p. 13)

10. In the book //The Magic Thief//, what kind of patch did Nevery have on the sleeve of his cloak? An hourglass with wings on it (p. 15)

11. In the book //The Magic Thief//, on Conn’s first day as Nevery’s apprentice who does Nevery hire at the local tavern? He hires a bodyguard/muscle named Benet (p. 18)

12. In the book //The Magic Thief//, what is the word everyone uses to describe Nevery’s servant Benet? The muscle (p. 20)

13. In the book //The Magic Thief//, what does Underlord Crowe carry around with him in his pocket? A click-ticker, a small device with four bones that is used for counting or calculating; it clicks when used (p. 23) 14. In the book //The Magic Thief//, how long was Nevery banished from Wellmet? For twenty years (p. 30)

15. In the book //The Magic Thief//, who exiled Nevery from Wellmet? The duchess (pp. 29-30)

16. In the book //The Magic Thief//, where do Nevery, Benet, and Conn head to after leaving the chophouse at the beginning of the book? Heartease, Nevery’s old home (p. 36) 17. In the book //The Magic Thief//, what will happen if the level of magic Conntinues to drop? Wellmet will fall into decay (p. 37)

18. In the book //The Magic Thief//, what does Nevery plan to do about the magic problem? Demand leadership of the magisters so he can research the problem and deal with it (p. 37)

19. In the book //The Magic Thief//, who runs the part of Wellmet known as the Twilight? Crowe, the Underlord (p. 38)

20. In the book //The Magic Thief//, what is the name of Nevery’s mansion? Heartsease (p. 36)

21. In the book //The Magic Thief//, what is there a painting of at Heartease that Conn does not recognize? A painting of a dragon (p. 51) 22. In the book //The Magic Thief//, when Nevery first goes through his things at Heartease, name two items Conn keeps aside for himself that Nevery calls “junk”? In the book //The Magic Thief//, when Nevery catches a cold what does he learn about Conn and colds? That Conn has never had a cold or even been sick and he’s not infested with bugs (p. 63) 23. In the book //The Magic Thief//, how does Conn feel once he gets new clothes? He doesn’t feel like a gutterboy anymore, he feels like walking around in the daylight is not so frightening (p. 67) They cook like eggs, hard on the outside, but all runny on the inside (p. 73) A small black cat with blue eyes (p. 77) The wizard Brumbee picks him up and suspects him to be a spying cat (p.s 88-92) Just his servant, not an apprentice (p. 95) To leave and go back to stealing in the Twilight (p. 96-97) Read chapter five of a book and it will explain why (p. 104) He names her Lady (p. 115) Nevery says he will have to go to school (p. 116) Brumbee says he recognizes Conn as the cat from the magister’s meeting (p. 132) On a gold chain around his neck (p. 144)
 * 1) In the book //The Magic Thief//, when Conn tries to cook biscuits, how do they turn out?
 * 1) In the book //The Magic Thief//, what does Conn change into to spy on the magister’s meeting for Nevery?
 * 1) In the book //The Magic Thief//, what happens to Conn when he’s a cat spying on the magister’s meeting?
 * 1) In the book //The Magic Thief//, when Conn talks about being Nevery’s apprentice, what does Nevery Connsider Conn to be at first?
 * 1) In the book //The Magic Thief//, when Nevery tells Conn he’s just a servant, what does Conn decide to do?
 * 1) In the book //The Magic Thief//, when Conn wanted to know why slowsilver and tourmalifine couldn’t be mixed, what did Nevery tell him to do?
 * 1) In the book //The Magic Thief//, what does Conn name the cat he finds?
 * 1) In the book //The Magic Thief//, what does Nevery decide to do with Conn when he tells Nevery he can’t read?
 * 1) In the book //The Magic Thief//, when Brumbee meets Conn at school for the first time what does he say about them meeting before?
 * 1) In the book //The Magic Thief//, where does Pettivox like to keep his locus stone?

34. In the book, //The Magic Thief//, how is a thief like a magician? A thief has quick hands and can make things disappear. (p. 1) 35. In the book, //The Magic Thief//, what did Conn steal from Nevery? A small stone, his locus magicalicus. (p. 3)

36. In the book, //The Magic Thief//, what did Nevery do to Conn when he caught him after stealing his locus magicalicus? He bought him dinner. (p. 4)

37. In the book, //The Magic Thief//, why was Nevery interested in Conn? He was not killed when Conn stole the locus magicalicus. (p. 10)

38. In the book, //The Magic Thief//, why did Conn not run away from Nevery when they first met? Conn thought he would be Nevery’s wizard’s apprentice. (p. 10 )

39. In the book, //The Magic Thief//, what was the name of the town that was the setting of the story? Wellmet (p. 12)

40. In the book, //The Magic Thief//, who requested Nevery return to Wellmet? Brumbee, Magister, Master of Wellmet Academicos (p. 12)

41. In the book, //The Magic Thief//, what was the reason Brumbee requested Nevery return to Wellmet? The magical levels in Wellmet had been dropping drastically, Brumbee thought Nevery was the only one who could resolve the problem (p. 12)

42. In the book, //The Magic Thief//, how long has Nevery been away from Wellmet? 20 years (p. 12)

43. In the book //The Magic Thief//, what symbol represented Nevery? An hourglass with wings (p. 15)

44. In the book //The Magic Thief//, why did Conn run and hide while waiting for Nevery at Underlord Crowe’s home? Conn was recognized by one of Crowe’s guards as the pickpocket Crowe was looking for. (p. 21 )

45. In the book //The Magic Thief//, what symptoms did Nevery notice that Connfirmed the level of magic was declining? Many houses were empty and rotting, streets were desolate, people were listless (p. 29 )

46. In the book //The Magic Thief//, what did Nevery request of Willa Forestal in his letter to her? To lift the order of his exile so he could help identify the cause of the magical decline. (p. 30)

47. In the book //The Magic Thief//, the town of Wellmet is divided into two sections with the magisters located on the islands in the river dividing the two sections; what are the two sections called? Twilight and Sunrise (p. 37-38)

48. In the book //The Magic Thief//, how were the two sections of Wellmet and the islands Connected? By Night Bridge; the islands were accessed by tunnels leading from Night Bridge. (p. 40)

49. In the book //The Magic Thief//, when Conn first saw Heartsease, how did he describe its appearance? It looked like a mansion that had a huge hole like someone had taken a huge rock and dropped it right in the middle of the house where the double doorway should be. Or like a big bite taken out of the middle. (p. 44-45)

50. In the book //The Magic Thief//, what was unusual about the tree located in the courtyard of Heartsease?

It was a huge black branched tree that was covered in black birds rather than leaves. (p. 45) 51. In the book //The Magic Thief//, how did Benet and Conn get through the locked gates when going to Twilight to purchase supplies? By using a keystone given to Benet by Nevery. (p. 68) 52. In the book //The Magic Thief//, when Nevery uses the embero spell on Conn why can’t Nevery predict what Conn will become? The spell changes the person into a creature with the same characteristics as the person’s nature. (p. 74)

53. In the book //The Magic Thief//, what was Conn afraid he would change into when Nevery used the embero spell? A cockroach or a mouse. (p. 77)

54. In the book //The Magic Thief//, why did Conn have to return to the Magister’s Hall a seConnd time as a cat to spy for Nevery? He couldn’t get into the meeting the first time because the door was closed. (p. 80-81)

55. In the book //The Magic Thief//, Nevery tells Conn that the embero spell is painful but Conn seemed to enjoy the experience. What is Nevery’s Connclusion as to the reason for Conn’s reaction to the spell? Nevery thinks Conn reacts differently to the spell because he had touched the magicalicus stone before. (p. 82)

56. In the book //The Magic Thief//, what does Benet do in his spare time? He knits (p. 84)

57. In the book //The Magic Thief//, what reason does Brumbee give the Magisters as to why Nevery is the best wizard to resolve their problem? Nevery is the only wizard who can balance the Underlord and the duchess. And he is the finest wizard the city has ever seen. (p. 91)

58. In the book //The Magic Thief//, Nevery sent Benet to purchase parts to build a device. What was the device going to be used for? A gauge for measuring the ambient level of magic. It was necessary to determine the rate of magical decay. (p. 99-100)

59. In the book //The Magic Thief//, how does Conn collect the slowsilver he spilled on the floor since he couldn’t pick it up? He blows on it to make it move and scoops it up in a glass jar. (p. 103)

60. In the book //The Magic Thief//, when Conn was exploring the other half of the mansion, what did he find in the chest that he opened with his lock picks? Rocks and a book (p. 107-110)

61. In the book //The Magic Thief//, what happened when Conn touched each of the stones? He saw brief glimpses of various people; some had no reaction, others caused his fingers to tingle or he felt a warm throb. (p. 111-112)

62. In the book //The Magic Thief//, how did Conn describe the last stone in the chest? It was wrapped in wormsilk and when unwrapped it felt light as if hollow, it looked like a polished gemstone the size of a baby’s fist, it was deep purple and was covered in fractures that appeared like it had more cracks than stone. (pp. 112-113)

63. In the book //The Magic Thief//, what reaction did Conn have when he touched the stone wrapped in wormsilk? He felt a cold wave of sickness and the stone shoved him away. (p. 112)

64. In the book //The Magic Thief//, after Conn explored the other half of the mansion what items did he take with him from his exploration? He took the book he found in the locked chest and the melted metal machine he found in the workroom. (p. 114)

65. In the book //The Magic Thief//, what does Nevery tell Conn slowsilver is used for? It restrains magic so it can be examined. (p. 118)

66. In the book //The Magic Thief//, what punishment did Nevery give Conn for being nosey and going into the other half of the mansion? Conn had to move the wood pile into the storeroom out of the rain. (pp. 118-119)

67. In the book //The Magic Thief//, what did Nevery tell Conn about the book and stones he found in the locked chest? The stones were locus magicalicus stones of wizards who were dead and the book was Nevery’s family chronicle. (pp. 119-120)

68. In the book //The Magic Thief//, how does Nevery think Conn gained the information about his family members connected to the stones in the chest? Nevery thought Conn read about the people and the stones connected to them in the family chronicle. (p. 121)

69. In the book //The Magic Thief//, how does Nevery describe fine jewels used as locus magicalicus stones? They appear only rarely and with dire consequences. (p. 122)

70. In the book //The Magic Thief//, how can a stone be destroyed? When the wizard attempts magic greater than the stone could bear. (p. 123)

71. In the book //The Magic Thief//, who was the “gray lady” Conn had seen when he touched one of the stones from the chest? Nevery’s mother. (p. 125)

72. In the book //The Magic Thief//, what did Conn offer to teach Nevery? How to pick pockets and locks, the secrets of the city, and how to walk in the shadows. (p. 128)

73. In the book //The Magic Thief//, when Brumbee meets Conn at the school for the first time why does Conn think Brumbee will throw him out of school? He knows Conn was the cat that spied on the Magister’s meeting or that he was too stupid to go to school. (p. 133)

74. In the book //The Magic Thief//, what does Conn have to do in order to do to be acknowledged as an apprentice? He must find a locus stone and be presented at Magister’s Hall. (p. 136-137)

75. In the book //The Magic Thief//, when Nevery presented Conn to the Magisters for approval to be his apprentice, Conn recognized Pettivox because he had seen him before. Where did Conn remember seeing him? In the Underlord’s secret underground workroom (p. 143)

76. In the book //The Magic Thief//, what condition did the Magisters give Nevery and Conn for him to be approved as Nevery’s apprentice? Conn must find his locus magicalicus within 30 days. (p. 148)

77. In the book //The Magic Thief//, what happened to Conn’s mother? She was killed by Underlord Crowe’s minions. (p. 152)

78. In the book //The Magic Thief//, what does Conn’s name, Connware, mean? It refers to a bird with black feathers. (p. 158)

79. In the book //The Magic Thief//, who is Conn’s tutor? Rowan. (p. 158)

80. In the book //The Magic Thief//, Rowan had never been a tutor; what does she think Brumbee’s reason is for giving her this job? To teach her patience. (p. 159)

81. In the book //The Magic Thief//, why does Rowan think Conn already knew how to read before she began tutoring him? After just a few minutes of studying the runes book, Conn was able to read it. (p. 60)

82. In the book //The Magic Thief//, when Underlord Crowe meets with Nevery, what reasons does the Underlord give for his determination that the Magisters are over exaggerating the magic crisis? The werelights in Sunrise are still burning and the factories in Twilight are still operating.

83. In the book //The Magic Thief//, Brumbee helps Conn try to find his locus stone by taking him to a store room full of locus stones, where do these stones come from? They wash up on the academicos (islands). (p. 170)

84. In the book //The Magic Thief//, Brumbee tells Conn to touch each stone in the storeroom. How will Conn know if he has found his locus stone? The stone will “call” to Conn by one of many ways: a whisper, a tingle or an overwhelming wave of magic. (p. 170-171)

85. In the book //The Magic Thief//, when Conn teaches Nevery to pick locks, he advises Nevery to always carry two sets of lock picks, one hidden, why? In case he is captured by the city guards. (p. 174)

86. In the book //The Magic Thief//, because Conn was the worst student in the apprentice class, what did his teacher, Periwinkle, do? Put Conn with the best student, Keeston, who was Pettivox’s apprentice. (p. 177)

87. In the book //The Magic Thief//, why did the spell book the students were studying intentionally have a mistake in the embero spell? So that students would not be able to use the spell (which was considered to be particularly dangerous) and accidentally turn themselves into toads. (p. 179)

88. In the book //The Magic Thief//, the students believed Nevery had been banished from Wellmet twenty years earlier for what reason? For attempting to kill the duchess and burn down the Dawn Palace. (p. 182) 89. In the book //The Magic Thief//, while studying his history, what did Conn learn about how cities like Wellmet were created? Magical nodes were places where magic gathered for some unknown reason. Magic was the life of a place and attracted people so cities grew up on these magical nodes. (p. 185) 90. In the book //The Magic Thief//, why does Conn think Keeston jumped him and started a fight? Conn thinks Pettivox, Keeston’s Master beats him. (p. 188) 91. In the book //The Magic Thief//, after searching for many days in the academicos did not turn up a locus stone for Conn, what did he decide to do to continue his search? He would skip school and spend all his time looking in Wellmet for his stone. (p. 193)

92. In the book //The Magic Thief//, when Conn was in Twilight looking for his locus stone, he saw Pettivox and followed him. Where did he follow Pettivox to? He followed him into a dark, dirty soot-stained building that was a noisy clothing factory. (p. 196)

93. In the book //The Magic Thief//, what did Pettivox want from the man he met in the clothing factory? He wanted more slowsilver for Underlord Crowe. (p. 197)

94. In the book //The Magic Thief//, who did Nevery take on to be his secretary? Keeston (p. 203)

95. In the book //The Magic Thief//, when Keeston referred to Conn as Nevery’s servant, what did Nevery say to Keeston? Nevery corrected Keeston and told him that Conn was his apprentice. (p. 203)

96. In the book //The Magic Thief//, when Conn accuses Pettivox of working with Underlord Crowe and they were behind the problem of the decrease in magic, what did Nevery tell Conn? Pettivox is working together with all the Magisters to resolve the problem and Underlord Crowe has nothing to do with the problem. (p. 204)

97. In the book //The Magic Thief//, what reason does Nevery give for Underlord Crowe not being to blame for the loss of magic in Wellmet? Crowe is not a wizard and he would not benefit from the loss of magic. (p. 208)

98. In the book //The Magic Thief//, on the last day Conn had left to find his locus stone, what did Benet give to him? A warm wool sweater he had knitted. (p. 211)

99. In the book //The Magic Thief//, if Conn did not find his locus stone on the final day he was given, what did he consider doing? Not returning to Heartsease. (p. 211)

100. In the book //The Magic Thief//, what reason did Keeston give Nevery as to why Conn had not been attending school? He had returned to his previous life of thieving in Twilight. (p. 213)

101. In the book //The Magic Thief//, where did Conn look for his locus stone on his last day of searching? In the Sunrise part of Wellmet. (p. 215)

102. In the book //The Magic Thief//, what building was located in the center of the Sunrise? Dawn Palace, the duchess’s home. (p. 215)

103. In the book //The Magic Thief//, when Conn was stopped by a guard in the Sunrise, what reason did he give for his reason of being there? He was carrying a message to Dawn Palace (pp. 217-218)

104. In the book //The Magic Thief//, since Conn was not able to find his locus stone within the 30 days given him, what did he think about who he was? He was no longer Nevery’s apprentice, he would never be a wizard, and he was now a thief again. (p. 220)

105. In the book //The Magic Thief//, who did Conn recognize at the Dawn Palace party? Rowan (p. 223)

106. In the book //The Magic Thief//, when Conn looked in the window at the Dawn Palace party, what did he see? The most perfect jewel in the entire world, green and sparkling, on a necklace worn by a woman. (p. 225)

107. In the book //The Magic Thief//, after Conn’s deadline had passed and he did not return to Heartsease for two days, why did Nevery send Benet to find Conn? So the cat would be quiet and Nevery could get some work done. (p. 226)

108. In the book //The Magic Thief//, who was wearing the jewel necklace Conn saw at the Dawn Palace party? The duchess. (p. 228)

109. In the book //The Magic Thief//, what reason did Conn give for not being able to wait until daylight to steal the jewel in the Dawn Palace? The jewel wanted Conn to come and get it now. (p. 233) 110. In the book //The Magic Thief//, what happened to the box holding the jewel when Conn tried to pick the lock with his knife? The box lid burst open as if the stone wanted out as badly as Conn wanted in to get the jewel. (p. 235) 111. In the book //The Magic Thief//, when Conn was captured in the duchess’s room what did the guards do to him? They captured him and gave him a philister, truth drug, to find out why he was trying to kill the duchess. (p. 240)

112. In the book //The Magic Thief//, when Captain Kerrn told Conn she didn’t think the philister was working what was Conn’s answer? A. “it’s working, you’re just not asking the right questions.” (p. 242)

113. In the book //The Magic Thief//, what reason did Conn give Captain Kerrn as to why he was trying to steal the jewel? It was his because he was a wizard and the jewel was his locus magicalicus. (p. 243)

114. In the book //The Magic Thief//, when Brumbee and Nevery received the message that Conn had been arrested for trying to steal the duchess’ jewel, Brumbee thought Conn had returned to his thievery. What did Nevery know was the real reason Conn had tried to steal the jewel? That Conn had found his locus magicalicus stone. (p. 244)

115. In the book //The Magic Thief//, what did Captain Kerrn do when she didn’t think the first dose of philister was working? She gave him a seond dose. (p. 245)

116. In the book //The Magic Thief//, how did Conn escape from his manacles? He had a seond set of lock picks hidden in his pants and was able to pick the lock. (p. 248)

117. In the book //The Magic Thief//, why did Nevery tell Conn that giving him the philister was redundant? Because the philister made a person tell the truth and Conn always told the truth. (p. 250)

118. In the book //The Magic Thief//, why did Brumbee believe the duchess’ jewel was not Conn’s locus magicalicus? Because no wizard had ever possessed a stone of that size and quality. (p. 252)

119. In the book //The Magic Thief//, what was the call of Conn’s locus stone like? It was an intense pull, a deep drumming hum in the bones of his legs and his skull and a light tingling buzz in the bones of his fingers and toes. (pp. 253-254)

120. In the book //The Magic Thief//, how was it proved that the jewel was Conn’s locus stone? Before Conn was taken to the duchess’ office, the jewel was hidden. When Conn entered the room, he easily found the stone hidden under the rug in the corner of the room. (p. 256)

121. In the book //The Magic Thief//, when Conn demonstrated his magic with the jewel, he performed the light spell but didn’t know how to stop it. What did Nevery tell him to do? Just will it to stop. (p. 258)

122. In the book //The Magic Thief//, the morning after finding his locus stone what did the birds in the tree do when Conn went to the well for water? They flew from the tree and swirled around Conn making lots of noise and sweeping him with their wing tips then flew back to the tree. (p. 264)

123. In the book //The Magic Thief//, why did Conn not want Keeston to know about his locus stone? Conn was afraid Keeston would tell Pettivox and word would get back to the Underlord. (p. 268)

124. In the book //The Magic Thief//, when Periwinkle was teaching students the spell to light candles, what was Conn’s opinion of his outcome if he used his locus stone for the spell? He would come out with a smoldering puddle of wax. (p. 276)

125. In the book //The Magic Thief//, what did Nevery mean when he said the duchess was like a puzzle lock? Nevery meant the duchess was tricky and do not trust her. (p. 276)

126. In the book //The Magic Thief//, when Conn was summoned to meet with the duchess at Dawn Palace after taking the locus stone jewel, what was the duchess trying to convince Conn to do? To leave Nevery and move into the Dawn Palace. (p. 289)

127. In the book //The Magic Thief//, what reason did the duchess give Conn as to the reason the magic was leaving Wellmet? The duchess said it was a natural ebbing and the problem would eventually reverse itself.

128. In the book //The Magic Thief//, who was the duchess’ liaison to the magisters? Pettivox (p. 291)

129. In the book //The Magic Thief//, what two items were Conn’s favorite foods? Biscuit and bacon (throughout book)

130. In the book //The Magic Thief//, why had Conn never met anyone who spoke a different language? Because most people traveled away from Wellmet not to it. (p. 298)

131. In the book //The Magic Thief//, once Conn realized people from different parts of the world spoke different languages, what did he speculate about the words used in spells? That the words used in spells were from a different language. (p. 299)

132. In the book //The Magic Thief//, Nevery had taught Conn that the magic that was located under the city was an atmospheric convergence or an upwelling; after Conn made the connection of spells and a foreign language, what did he also suspect about the magic? That it was a living, thinking being. (p. 300)

133. In the book //The Magic Thief//, why did Conn suggest to Keeston that he hide his locus stone in his robe when they went into the Twilight with Benet to buy supplies? Conn thought someone would try to steal it from Keeston. (p. 303)

134. In the book //The Magic Thief//, once Conn considered the possibility that the magic was a thinking being, what did he also consider being possible in order to find out what was causing the diminishing magic in Wellmet? That he could learn to speak the language and communicate with the magic through his locus magicalicus and find out what was causing the problem. (p. 304)

135. In the book //The Magic Thief//, what was Conn’s theory as to why he had survived living in the Twilight? The magic had protected him and had led him to Nevery and his locus magicalicus when it needed Conn to save it. (p. 304-305)

136. In the book //The Magic Thief//, why was Keeston so shocked that Conn would interrupt Nevery and contradict what he said? Because if Keeston ever did that to his Magister, Pettivox, he would be beaten. (p. 305)

137. In the book //The Magic Thief//, when Nevery was able to get the gauge he was building to work correctly and measure the magical levels of Wellmet the levels were dangerously low but remaining steady, what was Nevery’s theory on what was happening to the magic? The extreme cold had frozen the magic note and once spring thaw arrived, the magic would begin to flow again. (p. 307)

138. In the book //The Magic Thief//, when the six minions attacked Conn, Benet, and Keeston in the Twilight what did Conn do to escape from them? He performed the embero spell and turned them into rats, a rooster, a snake and a little hairy man with a tail. (p. 312-313)

139. In the book //The Magic Thief//, after Nevery returned from the Magisters meeting to give his conclusions about the decay of magic, why did Nevery kick Conn out? Nevery found out that Conn was Underlord Crowe’s nephew and thought he was spying for Crowe.

140. In the book //The Magic Thief//, when Conn was kicked out of Nevery’s house what did he decide to do to convince Nevery that he was not a spy for the Underlord? Conn decided he needed to get into the Underlord’s mansion and find proof that he was the cause of the decay of magic.

141. In the book //The Magic Thief//, how did Conn sneak into Underlord Crowe’s mansion? He used the embero spell and turned himself into a cat. (p. 335)

142. In the book //The Magic Thief//, when Conn, in the form of a cat, was sneaking down the hidden stairs in the Underlord’s mansion, what attacked him? A rat that was actually one of the minions Conn had transformed into a rat. (p. 340)

143. In the book //The Magic Thief//, what did Conn find when he snuck down the stairs below Underlord Crowe’s mansion? He found a large cavern with a large machine and realized that the machine was sucking all of Wellmet’s magic and storing it in the large tank in the center of the machine. (p. 342-343)

144. In the book //The Magic Thief//, what reason did Benet give Nevery to convince him that Conn was not a spy for Crowe? Benet told Nevery that when they were attacked in the Twilight it was Crowe’s men and they were after Conn and that there was no reason for Crowe to attack his own spy. (p. 346-347)

145. In the book //The Magic Thief//, when Conn tried to reverse the embero spell to turn himself back into a boy why did it take several tries to complete the transformation? Because almost all the magic had been imprisoned in Underlord Crowe’s device.

146. In the book //The Magic Thief//, when Conn discovered the device in Crowe’s basement, who did Conn go to to try and convince them that Underlord Crowe was the person responsible for the loss of magic in Wellmet? A. The duchess, Rowan’s mother (p. 350)

147. In the book //The Magic Thief//, when Nevery tried to scry Conn what was the result of the spell? Nothing, there wasn’t enough ambient magic for the spell to work. (p. 354)

148. In the book //The Magic Thief//, who kidnapped Conn when he went to tell the duchess about the Underlord’s role in stealing the magic of Wellmet? Magister Pettivox (p. 356)

149. In the book //The Magic Thief//, when Underlord Crowe and Magister Pettivox kidnapped Conn, what did Underlord Crowe tell Conn they would do with him? Nothing, they would leave him in the small prison cell to die. (p. 361)

150. In the book //The Magic Thief//, what was in the dark prison cell with Conn? Misery eels. (p. 365)

151. In the book //The Magic Thief//, how did Conn escape from the dark prison cell and the misery eels? He used his locus magicalicus stone and the small amount of magic available with a spell to open the cell door. (pp. 369-370)

152. In the book //The Magic Thief//, why was Conn going to do everything possible to rescue the magic even if he had to do it by himself? Conn knew the magic had chosen him to help and Conn wasn’t going to let the magic die without trying to help it. (p. 374)

153. In the book //The Magic Thief//, when Nevery, Benet and Conn were rushing to the Twilight from the Sunrise to rescue the magic, the Night Bridge was guarded by Crowe’s minions. How did Conn and Nevery get across the river to the Twilight? Benet fought the minions to allow Nevery and Conn to get across the bridge but minions were blocking the way so they crossed the frozen river on the ice. (p. 381)

154. In the book //The Magic Thief//, why was Underlord Crowe capturing the magic? He could control all the magic in Wellmet and since it was necessary for the city to function and survive, he could make money from the people of Wellmet having to pay him for the magic. (p. 383)

155. In the book //The Magic Thief//, when Conn realized what Underlord Crowe was trying to use the magic for, he told Nevery his plan would not work. What was Conn’s reason for this statement? Because Conn believed the magic could not be kept in a prison device; it would die. (p. 383)

156. In the book //The Magic Thief//, when Conn and Nevery had reached the workshop where the magic was being held hostage Pettivox and some minions captured Conn. How did he get away from them? Nevery created a lightning storm using magic and Conn was able to escape from the minions. (p. 389-390) 126. In the book //The Magic Thief//, Conn climbed up the device imprisoning the magic desperately trying to release it. How was he eventually able to do this? Conn held his locus magicalicus stone on a seam of the holding tank and thought his way through his locus stone into the device and “opened the lock” allowing the magic to burst through the seam. (p. 392)

157. In the book //The Magic Thief//, what happened to Conn’s locus stone when the magic was released from the holding tank? It disintegrated into a puff of sparkling dust and blew away in the wind. (p. 393)

158. In the book //The Magic Thief//, what happened to Dusk House, the Underlord’s home, when the magic was released? It was destroyed. (p. 394)

159. In the book //The Magic Thief//, where did Nevery find Conn after Dusk House and the device exploded? Wedged in a narrow crack that had opened up in one of the stone walls as if he had been set there for safekeeping. (p. 394)

160. In the book //The Magic Thief//, what was Conn’s condition after Nevery found him wedged in the stone wall after Dusk House exploded? He was cold and exhausted but had no marks or apparent injury from the explosion. (p. 395)

161. In the book //The Magic Thief//, after Dusk House exploded and the magic was released, what happened to Pettivox and Underlord Crowe? It is assumed that Pettivox was killed and Crowe was captured and put in the duchess’ prison. (p. 398)

162. In the book //The Magic Thief//, how did the loss of his locus magicalicus make Conn feel? He felt an empty aching space inside him. (p. 399)

163. In the book //The Magic Thief//, what was Keeston nervous and afraid of after the magic was released? He was afraid that he would be arrested since he was Pettivox’s apprentice. (p. 401)

164. In the book //The Magic Thief//, what was Conn afraid of after his locus stone was gone? That he was no longer a wizard and could not be Nevery’s apprentice any longer. (p. 402-403)

165. In the book //The Magic Thief//, after Conn had recovered from the explosion of the magic prison device, what did Nevery give Conn? He have him the robe Nevery had worn when he was young that had Nevery’s family crest, the hourglass with wings, on it. (p. 409)

166. In the book //The Magic Thief//, after Nevery gave Conn his robe, what did he tell Conn that relieved his worry about no longer being a wizard? Nevery told Conn that he was a wizard and that he would find another locus magicalicus. (p. 410)

167. In the book //The Magic Thief//, at the end of the book when Nevery told Conn he was a wizard even without a locus magicalicus, what did Conn set for his goal? He would continue to study at the academicos, learn every spell and convince the magisters that the magic was a living being. (p. 410)

168. In the book //The Magic Thief//, where did Conn plan to go to find another locus magicalicus after his was destroyed? He would first look in Wellmet and if he didn’t find it he would go out into the world to find it. (p. 410)

169. In the book //The Magic Thief//, what reason did Conn give Nevery as to why he needed a workroom at Heartsease? Since Conn didn’t have a locus magicalicus, he had a lot of work to do to figure out a way to get the magic’s attention so he could communicate with it. (p. 411)

170. In the book //The Magic Thief//, according to Nevery what two materials used by wizards must never be mixed because they will explode? Slowsilver and tourmalifine. (p. 411)