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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 Talia trust the horse to do?

2. Who is playing the instrument?

3. Where does Talia go after dinner?

4. Why won't Talia go back to the Hold?

5. What instructor is friendly and enthusiastic?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Talia's social life like in her holding?

2. Where does Talia go after her second weapons class and how does she do with the class?

3. What does a young girl do when she enters Talia's room and how does the woman who comes in respond to Talia's behavior?

4. What does Sherrill take Talia to get?

5. Why do most of the students go home, and why doesn't Talia do the same?

6. What are Heralds and Companions?

7. Why is Talia called into a meeting with her father's wives?

8. What happens when Talia comes upon a herald and what does she fear? What does he tell her?

9. What are the first two tasks Talia does when she and the Companion stop at their first rest?

10. What are the differences in the roles between men and women in Talia's holding and why might she be different than many women?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Arrows of the Queen 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 Arrows of the Queen as a bildungsroman of Talia. Give specific examples. What does Talia learn? How has she changed? Is the change for the better?

3. Thoroughly trace and analyze Arrows of the Queen as a coming of age story for Elspeth. Give specific examples. What does Elspeth learn? How has she changed? Is the change for the better?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the following:

1. Discuss five literary devices that occur in Arrows of the Queen 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 3

Discuss the following:

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

2. Analyze and discuss Arrows of the Queen based upon the criteria you decide upon in #1 and judge if Arrows of the Queen is a successful novel.

3. Do you think the fact that Arrows of the Queen 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.

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