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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 is in the room where Fitz is taken?

2. How do Chade and Fitz travel in the dark?

3. What information does FItz share with the mysterious lady?

4. Who flees the torture from the mob questioning Fitz's illegitimacy with Fitz?

5. Which of the following characters is unhappy with Fedwren's proposition?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Chade feel about Patience's arrival at the keep and what does he share with FItz about Patience?

2. Who, where and why is Fitz dropped off?

3. When others want Fitz killed, who stands up for him and why?

4. What does Fitz mull over that Burrich suggests and what decision does Fitz come to about this issue?

5. What challenge does Chade present to Fitz after he completes his first task?

6. When Fitz has time to explore the town of Buckkeep further what happens?

7. What does Chade speak about wistfully and what realization does this allow Fitz to realize about Chade?

8. On the day before Fitz's tenth birthday, who sees Fitz and who does this person counsel to make something out of Fitz before it is too late?

9. What does the King suggest can happen to Fitz?

10. What is one of the first tasks Fitz is asked to complete and how does he do with this task?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In what ways does Fitz's life change and in what ways does it remain the same? After learning about all of the events that affected Fitz throughout his life make a judgment as to whether the changes were for the positive or the negative and support your judgment with information from the text.

Essay Topic 2

In what way do Patience and Fitz relate? How did Patience's feelings in regard to Fitz change throughout the novel? Were these changes for the better or worse? Were they justified? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

In what ways is Fitz able to sense the inhuman-like qualities in the returned hostages? At what level do these returned hostages function? How does Fitz communicate with them? Is this skill beneficial or harmful? Why?

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