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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 Regal do about Queen Kettricken?

2. What happens to Fool when he touches the girl on the dragon with his magic fingers?

3. What does Verity believe about his stone dragon?

4. Who does Fool go?

5. What is the name of Kettricken's son?

Short Essay Questions

1. What can Fitz see as far as Verity and the Queen is concerned?

2. What happens with Queen Kettricken after Verity saves the kingdom, with the Fool and with Chade?

3. How and why is Regal killed?

4. What type of animal did the group see when they crossed some stream in their journey?

5. What happens in Chapter 39 when Fitz is fighting Will and Regal's army?

6. In Chapter 29, what did the narrator say about something Kettle taught Fitz to give him protection from Skill?

7. What did Kettricken tell Fitz about Starling in Chapter 29?

8. What does Fitz hear as he and Nighteyes are gathering supplies from the dead army?

9. What does Fitz do while Kettle and Verity sleep and what does Verity decide?

10. Where does Fool follow Fitz, what does he ask and then what happens? What is Fitz's response?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Fitz was killed and buried and was revived by Burrich and Chade. To bring Fitz back to life, he was trusted to a wolf who had been bound to him. Fitz is thinking of his past, and he wonders if he should thank these men for bringing him back.

1. Discuss in detail the types of emotional impact being dead and buried would have on a person who is then revived. Use examples from the book to support your answer.

2. Fitz's soul supposedly entered a wolf while he was buried. Discuss what you think being a wolf would do for Fitz's human mind. Use examples from the book to support your answer.

3. Using examples from the book discuss reasons why Fitz might not thank the men who brought him back from the dead.

Essay Topic 2

In Assassin's Quest and indeed in many fantasy novels, there are usually at least several individuals or more who have an almost fanatical devotion to a king or queen or royalty.

1. Do you believe such devotion is a sign that a person lacks character? Why or why not? Use examples to support your answer.

2. Discuss the harmful and beneficial effects of devotion to one's leader. Use examples to support your answer.

3. Do you think in modern America such dedication to the President of the United States would be very unusual? Why or why not? Use examples to support your answer.

Essay Topic 3

The narrator explains the magic of Wit, that bonds a human with an animal. The bond is only between a specific animal and a specific human, and they have become brothers or pack members.

1. Discuss the advantages a person might have if she/he had the magic of Wit. Use examples from the book to support your answer.

2. What types of immoral uses might an unscrupulous person use of the magic the Wit? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

3. If the Wit was a magic that existed in the United States in the twenty-first century, what types of laws and regulations do you think would arise surrounding its use?

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