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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. About what do Sherrill and Keren tease Talia?

2. At what age do females in the Holderkin take a vow of chastity or marry?

3. What does Talia face at the opening to this book?

4. About what do some villagers demand justice?

5. Who has to pay for fence repairs?

Short Essay Questions

1. What ceremony do the villagers want the Heralds to witness and how does it proceed?

2. Where do Kris and Dirk take Talia after she checks Rolan's equipment?

3. How does Talia feel as they approach the first village and why does she feel that way?

4. What occurs at the tack shed after the investiture?

5. What demonstrates the egalitarian nature of the Heralds?

6. What does Talia find on her door when she rises the next morning?

7. What surprise awaits Talia later that day?

8. How does Talia adjudicate her first case?

9. Who are two essential Heralds?

10. What do Heralds do?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the following:

1. What do you think are the characteristics of a successful novel?

2. Analyze and discuss Arrow's Flight based upon the criteria you decide upon in #1 and judge if Arrow's Flight is a successful novel.

3. Do you think the fact that Arrow's Flight is a novel in a series changes the criteria upon which its success should be judged? What about the fact that it is a fantasy novel? Explain.

Essay Topic 2

When one reads any novel (or anything at all), one brings everything from one's own past and present to the novel and in how one responds to what s/he is reading. Discuss the following:

1. How influential do you think a reader's own emotions, education, ideas and experiences influence how the reader responds to a work of fiction?

2. What about your life do you think influences you in reading Arrow's Flight? How does it influence you?

3. Do you think there is only one interpretation for any book? Discuss fully your response.

4. Do you think fiction can precipitate change in a reader? Is the change usually temporary or long lasting? Discuss your response thoroughly.

Essay Topic 3

Whenever reading a fantasy novel, one must become familiar with new terminology that explains a different world. In the case of Arrow's Flight, much of the setting would be familiar to the reader, though there are new ideas and terms to learn. Discuss the following:

1. Find five terms that are a part of Talia's world that occur in the "real" world but are used differently in Talia's world. Define the words as used in in Talia's world and compare those five words as to how they are currently used in the American English language.

2. There are ways of learning about a new world or time when reading a fantasy novel. Discuss the ways you were able to understand the world of Arrow's Flight. Did you have to look up any words? What does it mean to learn a word through its context? Do you have to do that in Arrow's Flight? What word(s)?

3. Were there any words you never really understood in Arrow's Flight? Which ones?

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