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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the two side effects of the Skill?
(a) It makes a person live longer and be healthier.
(b) It is addictive but not harmful.
(c) It's addictive and can cause brain damage.
(d) It shortens a person's life and makes them sickly.

2. What is Regal's message to the Mountain King?
(a) A demand to hand over Fitz.
(b) A demand to hand over Verity.
(c) To safeguard the Queen.
(d) A demand to hand over Kettricken.

3. What does Fitz realize about his life?
(a) He is once again a pawn.
(b) He is finally free and can do what he wants.
(c) He will be free once they find Verity.
(d) It is probably not going to be a long one.

4. What does Nighteyes suggest?
(a) That Fitz be carried.
(b) That Fitz not walk on the road.
(c) That Fitz and Nighteyes go ahead through the brush and meet them in three days.
(d) That the group veer East where another road is.

5. What does Fitz acquire after he kills three Forged Ones?
(a) A knife.
(b) A sword.
(c) A spear.
(d) A horse.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the concept of the ruler and sacrifice?

2. Whom has Nighteyes adopted into Fitz and his pack?

3. Why does Fitz want to leave Burrich and Chade?

4. Who does Fitz meet in a town he goes to for news?

5. Who assumes the top post of Skill teacher for Regal?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator explain about the Skill in Chapter 3?

2. For what reason did Kettricken consult Fitz on their journey in the mountains and what did she ask him to do? What was his response to her request?

3. According to the narrator, what is the geography and industry of Buck Duchy?

4. To what does Fitz listen as he is sleeping and what does he learn?

5. How is Fitz feeling as he walks to Tradeford and what does he find out there about Regal's residence?

6. What happened to Fitz that has caused him to have a difficult time remembering his past? How does he feel about his past?

7. Who came to see Fitz while he was recovering and what did they want Fitz's daughter to do? What was Fitz's reaction to this?

8. What does the narrator explain in Chapter 6 about minstrels?

9. What did Fitz and the others discover and decide to follow it? What effect does it have?

10. What does Fitz decide he must do after he becomes human again, and how does he feel about Burrich and Chade? What does he think about Queen Kettricken and not saving her?

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