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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 did Bink have to agree to to stay the night?

2. What threat terrifies Bink?

3. What did Bink believe the little lizard could represent?

4. What sound did Bink make when he knocked on the door?

5. What does Bink call the second person exiled from Xanth, just as he is removed?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why are nicklepedes things to be feared?

2. What is the recipe for correctly sowing wild oats, and what is the benefit to doing so?

3. How did Trent's tenure in Mundania change him?

4. What does Iris want with Bink?

5. What happened when Humfrey tried to reveal the nature of Bink's talent?

6. What does Humfrey determine about the nature of Bink's talent?

7. Why was the Fourth Wave the most important and meaningful to the human population of Xanth?

8. What is the shield and how did it come to be?

9. What features does the Gap Dragon possess that make him suited to the terrain of the Gap?

10. What is the significance of Humfrey and Beauregard?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why would Xanth be a threat to Mundanes, enough so to cause an international issue? Explain how this could be as though you are a representative of Xanth talking to a representative of Mundania. Create an argument to dissuade the Mundanians from attacking.

Essay Topic 2

What do you value more--integrity or power? Explain your answer, and justify it with at least five hundred words.

Essay Topic 3

Explain why the possession of a magic talent should be considered obscene by the centaurs. Hypothesize why the possession of magic should be obscene to centaurs but necessary for humans.

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