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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. Who calmed the centaur down?

2. Who had Bink been nudged towards meeting?

3. What animal was wounded and drank from the spring?

4. Who greets Bink when he comes back?

5. Who did the mirror show Bink was the the fairest human girl of all?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Bink view his long trip around the Gap?

2. What is Bink's motivation to seek out the Good Magician Humphrey?

3. Why did Bianca react so obtusely to the Wild Oats?

4. How does Sabrina's behavior cause Bink to reflect on the other women he had met?

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

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

7. How is the geis on the Spring of Life's water self serving?

8. What things does the storm cause Bink to reflect upon?

9. What was the complication with the Shield?

10. Why are nicklepedes things to be feared?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Imagine a sorceress or magician gave you a similar offer as Iris gave to Bink. Would you take it? Why or why not? What would motivate/hold you back from accepting this offer?

Essay Topic 2

What is Trent's logic to the stagnation of Xanth without a fresh influx of humans from Mundania? Does this make sense to you? What points in this argument particularly advocate for it being correct?

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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