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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 Kris ask Talia about her internship when it is almost Midsummer?

2. What does Kris realize about Talia's shields?

3. What does Kris suggest they do to alert anyone passing by on the road?

4. What rumors are spreading around Valdemar?

5. Who are Dirk's parents?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is it like outside when Talia and Kris awaken in the morning after moving their supplies inside?

2. Describe the confrontation between Kris and Talia as they finally reach the road after clearing a path from the Waystation.

3. What is a struggle for Kris as far as his interaction with Talia?

4. Why does Talia ask Kris to go someplace and what is Tantris' interpretation of the forest's reaction to Talia?

5. What two concepts does Talia begin to learn in order to control her gift?

6. What causes an emotional outburst once Kris and Talia are settled into the Waystation?

7. Why do Kris and Talia increase their pace when they are approaching a tiny hamlet near the Border?

8. How have Talia's feelings towards Kris evolved?

9. What happens while Kris and Talia are dreaming in the Waystation?

10. What does Kris ask of Talia now that her internship is half over?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Arrow's Flight could be said to be a "bildungsroman" of Talia, the main character. Discuss the following:

1. Define the concepts "bildungsroman" and "coming of age."

2. Thoroughly trace and analyze Arrow's Flight as a bildungsroman of Talia. Give specific examples. What does Talia learn? How has she changed? Is the change for the better?

3. Do you think young people in our modern culture go through a coming of age period? Do you think the concept of "coming of age" is inherent in the human experience? Why or why not.

4. Do you think you have lived through a "coming of age" period in your own life? Discuss as thoroughly as you willing to share.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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.

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