Quiz One

NEWT Quiz One - Gamp's Law of Elemental Transfiguration (/10)
Multiple Choice (/3) True or False (/2) Short Answer (/5)

Multiple choice (/3)
1 Mark Each

1. A wizard finds a wand on the ground. He casts a replication spell on the wand. He takes one of the wands that he made, and tries to cast a spell. What will happen?
a) Nothing will happen
b) The spell will be weak compared to if the wizard cast a spell using the original wand
c) The spell will be as strong as if cast using the original wand
d) None of the above

2. A witch finds herself being very bored one day and turns a rock into a pig. After playing with the pig for a long time, she finally decides that she is hungry and tries to eat the pig. What will happen?
a) Nothing will happen
b) The pig will revert back into a rock
c) The pig will disappear
d) None of the above

3. A wizard tries to chase a bird that he saw with his broom. However, as he was chasing the bird, it suddenly turned into a brick, and the wizard saw no one casting a transfiguration spell on the bird. Which exception of Gamp's Law of Elemental Transfiguration fits most with this event?
a) Second Exception
b) Fourth Exception
c) Fifth Exception
d) None of the above


True or False (/2)
0.5 Mark Each

1. A cow can be made out of thin air

2. You must transform something into something else, things can not magically just appear

3. Every vertebrate can be transfigured

4. A dragon can be transfigured into a horse


Short Answer (/5)
Answer with at least 75 words

Explain which exceptions of Gamps Law of Elemental Transfiguration would be broken if a wand was turned into a phoenix egg (which has more magical power than wands) and why.


ANSWERS

Multiple Choice

1. A) nothing will happen because wand cores have living energy instilled in them an according to the third exception of Gamps Law of Elemental Transfiguration, anything that's replicated alive can not be used for anything, including wand cores. Since the wand core can not be used, there will be no magic.

2. B) the pig will revert back into a rock because according to the first exception of Gamps Law of Elemental Transfiguration, food can not be created, only replicated.

3. D) none of the above. The rock and bird are magical equivalents so the fifth exception does not apply. The bird and rock are not human so the second exception does not apply. The bird was not the object of origin, so it wasn't turned dead when turned into a rock, the rock was rather turned living so the fourth exception does not apply. For enrichment, it was the third exception.

True or False

1. False, cows are food

2. False, inanimate objects can be conjured out of thin air, and nonhuman objects can be replicated

3. True, just that not everything can be transfigured into a vertebrate (second exception)

4. True, dragons are magically superior to horses

Short answer

first, third, and fifth

First - eggs are food
Third - phoenix eggs hatch rather quickly, but living transfigured things can not be used for anything unless the origin was inanimate
Fifth - phoenix eggs are magically superior to wands