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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 part of the reason Fitz is having a difficult time sleeping in the barn?

2. What does Chade tell the Six Duchies?

3. Why was Kettle exiled from her home?

4. Of what does the narrator write?

5. What does the ones who survived the attack say about what happened to Verity?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Fitz and Starling get across the mountains and how does Fitz pay for it?

2. What does the narrator explain about the Wit in Chapter 5?

3. What did the narrator say about the Mountain Kingdom in Chapter 23?

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

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

6. In Chapter 7 what does Farrow say about Lady Patience and her work?

7. What is Fitz's task in the caravan across the mountains, who joins him and how is he able to join him?

8. What happens to Fitz and Nighteyes as the caravan begins to cross the river?

9. What does the narrator say of King Regal and his treatment of the Buck Duchy?

10. Why does Fitz decide to go into a town, what does he do to prepare, who does he meet and what do they ask him?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The narrator describes the magic of Skill, which is a trait passed along royal bloodlines. A person who can Skill is able to communicate from afar and even influence the thoughts of others. One of the side effects is that it is addictive and can reduce the person to an idiot if indulged in for too long.

1. Discuss the advantages a person might have if she/he had the magic of Skilling. Use examples from the book to support your answer.

2. What types of immoral uses might an unscrupulous person use of the magic the Skill? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

3. If the Skill was a magic that existed in the United States in the twenty-first century, what types of laws and regulations do you think would arise surrounding its use?

Essay Topic 2

In Assassin's Quest and indeed in many fantasy novels, there are usually at least several individuals or more who have an almost fanatical devotion to a king or queen or royalty.

1. Do you believe such devotion is a sign that a person lacks character? Why or why not? Use examples to support your answer.

2. Discuss the harmful and beneficial effects of devotion to one's leader. Use examples to support your answer.

3. Do you think in modern America such dedication to the President of the United States would be very unusual? Why or why not? Use examples to support your answer.

Essay Topic 3

When Fitz returns to his cabin, three Forged Ones are there. A fight breaks out, and although Fitz kills one, he is frozen with fear and barely escapes, using his wolf abilities to hide.

1. Discuss what you think Fitz might be feeling to be so frightened when once he was a strong warrior. Use examples from the text to support your answer.

2. Do you think once a courageous person has lost his nerve he can ever regain it? Why or why not? Use examples to support your answer.

3. Outline in detail, with explanations, the steps you think someone could take to overcome fear.

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