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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 does Kris worry regarding Talia?
2. What do Kris and Talia think their dreams are saying?
3. What does Talia say she could easily do concerning Kris?
4. What does Kris hear in his dream?
5. What stories do Kris and Talia believe when they hear the wind roaring the next morning?
Short Essay Questions
1. After Kris falls asleep, what does Talia think about concerning Dirk and love?
2. How is Kris protective of Dirk and how does Kris' relationship with Talia cause Kris anxiety because of his friendship with Dirk?
3. What does Talia do for the Weatherwitch?
4. What causes an emotional outburst once Kris and Talia are settled into the Waystation?
5. What is a struggle for Kris as far as his interaction with Talia?
6. What news does Skif bring from the city?
7. Describe the confrontation between Kris and Talia as they finally reach the road after clearing a path from the Waystation.
8. What is the situation with an older, rich couple and their sewing maid?
9. How does Kris' attempts to comfort Talia go further than either intends?
10. What is it like outside when Talia and Kris awaken in the morning after moving their supplies inside?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
Oftentimes, a book is more of a character-driven plot rather than action driven, and oftentimes the other way. Some books seem to balance the two. Discuss the following:
1. What do you think it means to say that a plot is character driven? Action driven?
2. How do you think a plot differs if it is character driven versus action driven?
3. Which type of plot do you find more interesting? Why?
4. Do you think it is possible to have a plot where action and character development share equal time? Why or why not.
5. What type of plot do you think Arrow's Flight is? Explain your response.
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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