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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 does the shadow feel like when Ged grabs him?

2. What has Ged lost?

3. Where does Ged wake up?

4. To what part of Iffish does Ged go?

5. Where does the woman say Ged is?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Ged seek security at Roke and not in his hometown in Gont?

2. 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?

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

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

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

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

7. Why is it important that the reader does not know the victor of the fight until Vetch asks him?

8. Why does Pechvarry act so negatively towards Ged?

9. Do you think Ged achieves everything in his life he wanted to do?

10. What does Ged learn from his confrontation with Skiorh?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In the Wizard of Earthsea, a person's and even an animal's name is kept secret and if said by someone else can cause that person or animal to lose power. Why do you think names are so important in the book? Why do the wizards change their names?

Essay Topic 2

What do you think the Shadow means within the context of the story? Why does Ged have to defeat it to move on with his life? What does the Shadow represent?

Essay Topic 3

The book follows Ged through some of the important years of his life and divides it into three periods.

1) From 7-13 at the the Gont village.

2) From 13-16 training to be a wizard, first with Ogion and then at the wizard school in Roke.

3) From 16 he tries to find himself in the world.

Take one of the periods and discuss what he learns and the problems he faces.

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