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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 when the two sisters return and ask Richard to take a collar?

2. What is the name of the two towers in the Valley of the Lost?

3. Where are Chase and Rachel when Zedd and Addie are traveling?

4. What was the person who first put a collar on Richard?

5. How does Richard refer to himself to Verna?

Short Essay Questions

1. What attacks Richard and what does he do with it?

2. Why has Zedd gone to see Addie? Why does she live where she lives?

3. How did Richard get away from the Mord-Sith collar, how are Mord-Siths created and how strongly does Richard feel about ever wearing another collar?

4. What does Zedd tell his two companions to do about the screeling?

5. What do Zedd and Chase do about the screeling?

6. What does Zedd take out of his pocket in Chapter 4 and what does he do with it?

7. What does Richard see while in the Valley of the Lost, what happens to Verna, how does Richard deal with it and what is her reaction?

8. What do the three women who accost Richard say and what happens when he interacts with them?

9. What does Richard see when trying to focus on the magic lesson Verna is giving him? What does he tell Verna about it?

10. In Chapter 5, what does Margret see and what does Nathan say about it?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Though it is not a part of Stone of Tears, the readers are given enough information to learn that Richard was, up until a short time ago, a peasant in a small village. Discuss the following:

1. How do you think Richard has changed from who he was before he leaves his village to the Richard he is in Stone of Tears?

2. Why do you think Goodkind chooses a young, unknown man to be the hero of the series?

3. How would the book have been different if Richard had been a prince?

4. How would the book have been different if the Seeker had been a female?

Essay Topic 2

Kahlan made Richard go because she loves him and is scared that he will die. It takes Richard a long time to understand her love for him and the reason she asked him to leave.

1. Do you think Kahlan could have made her motivation clearer to Richard? Why or why not? Use examples from the text to support your answer.

2. In many place in the book and in the other books in this series Richard and Kahlan have made a great deal out of not lying to each other. Explain why Kahlan lied to Richard about the collar. Do you think she was right to do that? Use examples from the text to support your answer.

3. Richard throws away the lock of hair Kahlan gave him. Do you think he should have understood why she did what she did and said what she said? It seems it completely misunderstood her motives? Does that seem dense for someone who is supposed to be the Seeker of Truth? Why or why not? Also discuss how emotions might get in the way of being logical. Use examples from the text to support your answer.

Essay Topic 3

Sister Verna continues to talk to Richard of different prophecies with Richard telling her that he doesn't understand such riddles and seemingly doesn't believe in them. Yet, Richard begins to lean very heavily on the prophecies and believe in them more and more as the story continues.

1. Trace and analyze the occurrences of prophesy in Stone of Tears.

2. Many fantasy novels include some "prophesy" in their storyline. Why do you think this is?

3. Do you think Richard knowing about the prophesies about him will help him? How could it hinder him?

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