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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. With whom is Selenay working when Talia arrives at the palace?

2. What is happening in the tack shed of the companion's field?

3. What is one rumor about Talia and Elspeth?

4. What protects the Northern Border from trouble?

5. Where is the formal investiture to take place?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why do the Council meetings disturb Talia?

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

4. What starts Kris and Talia's journey off a little roughly?

5. What is the worse mistake that the Queen's Own, Talamir, makes?

6. Describe the interaction between Kris and his uncle.

7. Who are two essential Heralds?

8. How does Talia adjudicate her first case?

9. What surprise awaits Talia later that day?

10. Why does Talia decide to take an apartment at the top of the tower?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the following:

1. Discuss five literary devices that occur in Arrow's Flight and how they are used. Are they effective? Do they add or detract from the reading of the book? Why or why not. Some possible techniques: Allusion, connotation, denouement, dialogue, flashback, figurative language, motif, metaphor, narrator, point of view, simile, mood, and puns.

2. What do you think are the reasons students are encouraged to understand literary devices? Do you think an understanding of the structure of a work of fiction enhances the reading experience? Why or why not?

3. Do you think authors make a conscious effort to include literary devices into their writing? Discuss your answer. Do you think it would be difficult to consciously create metaphor, simile, puns, etc...? Why or why not.

Essay Topic 2

In most fiction, readers would like all the loose ends to be neatly "tied up." Discuss the following:

1. Do you think Arrow's Flight is successful as a fantasy novel? Why or why not.

2. What about this book would motivate you to read another of Mercedes Lackey's Herald and Companion series? What would discourage you from doing so?

3. Were all the "loose ends" satisfactorily settled for you? Why or why not.

4. Do you think that a reader expects that not all loose ends are tied up in a book in a series, unless it's the last book?

Essay Topic 3

The social mores of Valdemar have some similarities to that of the general culture of the United States and some differences. Discuss the following:

1. Define the term mores and give examples of it from your own life.

2. Write a comparison/contrast essay of the cultural mores of Valdemar compared to those of your own culture.

3. Do you think it is harmful for young people to read novels that contain contrasting or contradictory ideas from those in which the young people are raised? Discuss thoroughly.

4. Many books over the years have been banned (and consequently unbanned) in the United States because of their controversial ideas or behaviors of the characters. Do you think a book such as Arrow's Flight, with it's more liberal sexual mores, would have been banned had it been published in the 1950's? Discuss thoroughly.

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