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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Ged help the villagers?
(a) He provides them them with larger boats
(b) He provides them with cleaner water
(c) He provides them with healthier air
(d) He helps them with their personal needs

2. Where does Ged dock his boat next?
(a) Western Hands
(b) Northern Hands
(c) Eastern Hands
(d) Southern Hands

3. Why does Ged want to go to Roke?
(a) He wants to see his friends
(b) It is the only place he feels safe
(c) He needs to get some spells
(d) He wants a job at the school

4. What does the shadow trick Ged into doing?
(a) Crashing into rocks.
(b) Getting lost
(c) Starting a storm.
(d) Losing all of his supplies

5. What is Vetch worried about when he finds Ged?
(a) That Ged is going to die
(b) That they do not know the way back home.
(c) That Ged cannot talk
(d) That the Ged he has found is actually the shadow

6. What does one village tell him?
(a) That they know his real name
(b) That he will soon die
(c) That he is evil
(d) That they have seen him walking on water

7. What is Vetch's sister's name?
(a) Rose
(b) Yarrow
(c) Barrow
(d) Fred

8. What does Ged acquire in Westhand
(a) A bigger boat
(b) A coat
(c) Clothes
(d) A slave

9. How does Ged get food from villagers when he travels in search of the shadow?
(a) He threatens them at gun point
(b) He sneaks into their houses at night
(c) He begs on the street
(d) He does good deeds

10. Whose point of view does Le Guin switch to when Ged fights the Shadow?
(a) Yarrow's
(b) The Shadow's
(c) Ogion's
(d) Vetch's

11. Why won't Ged's spells work?
(a) Because the storm is one of Roke's safety spells
(b) Because killing the dragon had drained all of Ged's power
(c) He has forgotten an essential word.
(d) Because Pechvarry cursed him.

12. Where do Ged and Vetch travel to after the fight?
(a) Atowell
(b) Osskil
(c) Iffish
(d) Roke

13. On what island is the Court of Terrenor located?
(a) Osskil
(b) Terrenor
(c) Gont
(d) Roke

14. Why does the old man startle Ged?
(a) He has no face
(b) He knows a lot about Ged
(c) He threatens Ged with a dagger
(d) He has a snake tongue

15. Why does Ged tell Vetch to row?
(a) He thinks Vetch is being too lazy
(b) They need to get away from the shadow
(c) The sail is broken
(d) They are coming towards land

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Yarrow feel about Ged's future?

2. Who does Ged meet while out on his walk?

3. What does Ged feel from the stone?

4. In what country are the couple heir to a throne?

5. What does the paving stone at the base of the castle contain?

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