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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. Of what mission is Fitz expected to be a part?

2. Against whom are the coastal duchies rebelling?

3. What does Nighteyes suggest?

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

5. Who come to see Fitz as he is recovering from the arrow wound?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are Forged Ones, their character and what attracts them?

2. What do the others do to help Fitz as they travel?

3. In Chapter 25, what does the group realize about Fitz and what do they do about it?

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

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

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

7. What is Fitz's plan for getting into Regal's residence?

8. In Chapter 15, what does the narrator tell of Kettricken and her search for her husband?

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

10. What did the others expect Fitz to do and how did he feel about it?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Assassin's Quest falls in the genre called fantasy. Discuss the following:

1. What is the definition of genre? Fantasy genre? How do you know Assassin's Quest falls in the genre of fantasy? Give examples.

2. Other than entertainment, why do you think people might read fantasy?

3. Fantasy is sometimes considered second-rate fiction--i.e., that it is not good enough to be studied in academe. Why do you think this is true? Do you think it is a valid argument?

Essay Topic 2

Verity is found. But rather than being the answer to all their problems, he raises new questions. The group of weary travelers are at the end of their quest, but at the beginning of entirely new challenges.

1. Often people look forward to a certain event as something they believe will solve all their problems. Discuss how you believe the group's mental and emotional states are affected by finding out that the person in whom they placed all their hopes may not be able to help. Use examples from the book to support your answer.

2. If one thinks of running a marathon and then, at the end of a grueling race, finding out he/she must run another ten miles, it would seem that those ten miles would be impossible. This is a metaphor for what has happened to the travelers. They are now faced, not with answers, but more challenges. Discuss ways in which you think the group can support each other to face these challenges. Use examples from the book to support your answer.

3. What do you think the new challenges are that the travelers must face? Do you see the new problems as being more difficult to solve then the ones they have encountered on the journey? How does their journey correspond with the idea of the "journey of life?"

Essay Topic 3

Verity and Kettle sleep, and Fitz moves towards the dragon. Verity meets him there, and decides he must sacrifice Fitz as well as himself in order to save the Six Duchies and bring the dragon to life. Fitz gives his life to Verity to give to the dragon.

1. Compare Fitz's reaction and willingness to the girl on the dragon. Use examples from the book to support your answer.

2. Do you think it is fair for Verity to ask yet another sacrifice of Fitz in order to save a land that hates him and believes him dead? Why or why not?

3. In some religions, laying down one's life for another, for a friend or for a cause is the greatest deed a person can do. Discuss what you believe about this value.

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