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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Vetch insist on doing?
(a) Giving Ged food supplies
(b) Making Ged invincible
(c) Helping Ged search for the shadow
(d) Giving Ged his sword

2. How does Ged try to get past the storm?
(a) Taking a longer route
(b) Taking one of the ship's safety boats
(c) With spells
(d) Swimming

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

4. What does Ged buy from a local man on Gont island?
(a) A sword
(b) A small boat
(c) Some food
(d) Medicine

5. What does Ged turn himself into to fight the birds?
(a) An owl
(b) A hawk
(c) A buzzard
(d) An eagle

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the old man startle Ged?

2. How does Ged reward the man for giving him the boat?

3. What is the first thing Ged does when he reaches the shack?

4. To what part of Iffish does Ged go?

5. What was Ged's Shadow's name?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do you think chasing the shadow takes away some of its power?

2. What do you think Otak's death symbolizes?

3. Is it significant that Ged turns into a hawk?

4. How does Ged realize the Shadow's name?

5. What does Vetch's comment that he was there in beginning so he should be there in the end, mean in context of the story?

6. Why do you think the Shadow runs away after Ged tries to grab it?

7. How does Ged's reaction to the town's celebration show a change in his character?

8. Why is it significant Ged goes back to see his original teacher?

9. What do the sightings of a man looking like Ged say about the Shadow?

10. Has Ged completed a full circle of his life?

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