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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. Why does Keldar call Talia?

2. What is one thing Talia gets during her tour?

3. What incidences increase?

4. What does Talia's father claim?

5. When does Talia feel most peaceful?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Elcarth's position in the palace, what does he notice about Talia's personality and her knowledge?

2. What continues unabated and what does Talia do?

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

4. 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?

5. What does Teren show Talia one day after class?

6. Who are Blues and what do most of the Heralds think of them?

7. What are Heralds and Companions?

8. How does Talia know where to go when she leaves with the Companion and where is the first place they stop?

9. What does Rolan do when he and Talia arrive at the city?

10. What concerns Alberich about Talia and how does Talia feel about her first lesson with him?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss one of the following:

1. Compare/contrast Talia's living situation in the Holding with hers by the end of the novel. How are they different? How are they the same? How do their differences influence the person Talia is?

2. Compare/contrast Elspeth at the beginning of the novel with who she is by the end of the novel. How is she different? How is she the same? Are the changes she goes through all positive? Which "Elspeth" do you like better?

3. Compare/contrast Tlaia at the beginning of the novel with who she is by the end of the novel. How is she different? How is she the same? Are the changes she goes through all positive? Which "Talia" do you like 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

Arrows of the Queen belongs to the literary genre of fantasy fiction. Discuss the following:

1. Thoroughly define the term genre and offer examples of it from your own reading experience. Why do you think it is useful to categorize fiction into genres? What could be a disadvantage of doing so?

2. What do you think is the main motivation for a person to read a fantasy novel? Is entertainment a good enough reason? Are there any other reasons to read this genre? What? Explain fully.

3. In "academe," fantasy novels are often thought of as less literary than some other genres and for that reason are sometimes "snubbed" in the study of literature. Why do you think this is so? Do you agree with this "snobbery"?

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