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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 happens at the end of Chapter 19?

2. What does Birle discover has happened to Orien when she reaches his place?

3. If people in the Kingdom asked, what was Birle and Orien's cover story for Orien?

4. What day is nearing at the beginning of Chapter 22?

5. What does Joaquim announce to Birle near the end of Chapter 18?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Birle understand about Nan?

2. Describe the relationship between Joaquim and Birle in Chapter 19.

3. What changes once Orien is back in the Kingdom?

4. What sort of reputation has Birle earned in Chapter 17 amongst the people of the city while being a slave?

5. How does Corbel see Birle differently now in Chapter 16?

6. Birle realizes that Corbel, along with being cruel and greedy, is also clever. How is he clever, especially with the throwing of the feast?

7. Birle sees a hand nailed to a board holding a gold coin and she finds out that there is another hand on the other side as well as the heads that go with the hands elsewhere at the marketplace. What do these represent and who are they?

8. When Orien is injured and Birle rushes to the laboratory, what does she realize?

9. What does Birle come to understand about Gladaegal?

10. How does Joaquim use Birle's education in reading and writing, and what does this mean for her?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Birle and Orien are two very different people. Compare and contrast not only their lifestyles but also their characters. How these two different people manage to get along? Use specific examples from the book.

Essay Topic 2

Loyalty is a theme seen within the novel various times. Analyze and discuss the loyalty between one of the following pairs:

1. Birle and Orien.

2. Birle and Joaquim.

3. Birle and Yul.

Essay Topic 3

Birle wants control of her own life and situations, but she continually feels that fortune has a hand in everything. Joaquim even says "There are some who say that the Lady Fortune has a wheel , and all men are fixed upon it. The wheel turns, the men rise or fall, with the turning of the wheel." What does Joaquim mean with this statement? Who is Lady Fortune and how does it relate to Birle's view of fortune? How does fortune take away Birle's control?

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