View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is the band overcome with a sense of dread?
(a) The dragons emit dark energy.
(b) They have not been able to wake the girl on the dragon.
(c) A snow storm has moved into the valley.
(d) Regal's army is on the way to kill them.

2. What does Verity want to do even though he is with his Queen?
(a) Work on the dragon.
(b) Kill himself.
(c) Have an affair with Kettle.
(d) Go fight the Red Ships.

3. Who was supposed to train Verity in the Skill?
(a) Shrewd.
(b) Galen.
(c) Regal.
(d) Will.

4. What is Fitz doing in the morning when Starling joins him in Chapter 38?
(a) Washing clothes.
(b) Sleeping.
(c) Cooking breakfast.
(d) Swimming.

5. Of what does the narrator speak at the opening of Chapter 29?
(a) An old game played among the Mountain folk.
(b) Why Fitz is stronger than Verity in the skill.
(c) How Fits inherits skilling from his grandfather.
(d) How Fitz comes to have wit.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Verity act towards Kettricken?

2. What do the Fool and Fitz do one night?

3. Why hasn't Regal fought the raiders?

4. About what does Fitz not wonder later?

5. What does the narrator first make a reader believe about Fitz and Regal in Chapter 40?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened when Fitz was overcome by Regal in the Skill?

2. What does Fitz do through Will in Chapter 40?

3. What does the narrator explain about the Wit in Chapter 32?

4. What does the narrator say about the progress of the Red Ships in Chapter 37 and what does Regal do about them?

5. What does Verity ask Fitz to do and what was the end result?

6. To where does the Skill road take the group in Chapter 33 and what do they find there?

7. What does Fitz hear as he and Nighteyes are gathering supplies from the dead army?

8. Where does Fool follow Fitz, what does he ask and then what happens? What is Fitz's response?

9. In Chapter 29, what did the narrator say about something Kettle taught Fitz to give him protection from Skill?

10. How and why is Regal killed?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 870 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample