The Transall Saga

Multiple Choice and Long Answer questions create ideal opportunities for holistic review, unit exams, or summative assessments.

Multiple Choice

1. How is Mark transported to Transall?

A) He is bitten by an enchanted snake.

B) He is struck by lightning.

C) He falls into a tube of blue light.

D) He encounters a shaman named Pet.

2. Why does Mark start to roam around the jungle in ever larger circles?

A) He is looking for food.

B) He is searching for other signs of life.

C) He is searching for a water source.

D) He hopes to rediscover the tube of blue light.

3. How does Mark celebrate his defeat of the Howling Thing?

A) He makes a necklace from its claws.

B) He boasts to Willie, the monkey-bear.

C) He makes a pelt from its fur, which he wears as a cape.

D) He puts its head in his treehouse.

4. What do the arrow people do that disgusts Mark?

A) They club him on the head.

B) They cannot communicate in his language.

C) Leeta rejects his advances.

D) They attack a neighboring village for little gain.

5. Why does Sarbo try to kill Leeta?

A) Leeta cuts her foot, slowing down the Tsook.

B) He does so for fun.

C) He does so to provoke a response from Mark.

D) Leeta is rude to Sarbo.

6. Why does Dagon free Mark and induct him as a Tsook warrior?

A) Because Mark is clearly brave and skilled

B) Because his daughter, Megaan, has feelings for Mark

C) Because Mark warned the Tsook of danger

D) Because the Merkon asks Dagon to do so

7. What does the Coca-Cola bottle reveal about Transall?

A) It reveals that the tube of blue light transports objects, as well as people.

B) It reveals that Transall is a future version of Earth.

C) It reveals that the Merkon is able to travel back and forth between Transall and Earth.

D) It reveals that Transall is a past version of Earth.

8. Why does the Merkon try to kill Mark?

A) Because he doesn’t want Mark to reveal the realities of Transall to the Tsook tribes

B) Because he feels threatened by Mark’s knowledge, as they are from the same time period

C) Because Mark challenges the Merkon to a duel

D) Because Mark kills the Merkon’s son

9. What does Mark’s engagement to Megaan symbolize?

A) Mark’s decision to give up on his goal of returning home and instead moving forward on Transall

B) Mark’s desire to be Barow’s brother-in-law

C) Mark’s desire to be connected to Dagon

D) Mark’s excitement to be a father

10. What is Mark’s profession once he grows up?

A) He becomes a professional hiking guide.

B) He becomes an astronaut.

C) He becomes a teacher, and tells his students about the future of the world.

D) He becomes a scientist who specializes in finding cures for the Ebola virus.

Long Answer

Compose responses of 2-3 sentences, incorporating textual details to support your responses.

1. How is Mark immediately characterized as a survivor in The Transall Saga’s opening chapters?

2. How does Mark’s relationship with the arrow people characterize him as a principled person?

3. When Mark is inducted as a Tsook warrior, what benefits does this grant him?

4. In what ways is Mark and Megaan’s romance hinted at?

5. What does the Merkon reveal about the fate of Earth?

6. What (or who) drives Mark’s profession on Earth?