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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 Regal's message to the Mountain King?

2. What do some people want Molly's child to do?

3. Why do the people from the Red Ships make Forged Ones?

4. Where is Fitz taken?

5. Why has Verity gone away?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Lord Bright realize when the Red Ships have taken Bearns and what does he do?

4. Who has Nighteyes adopted into his and Fitz's pack? What does he do because of that?

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

6. What demand did Regal send the Mountain King and what did Kettricken decide because of it? Who participated in Kettricken's plan?

7. What does Fitz feel he is half of and how is Burrich dealing with Fitz's feelings?

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

9. 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?

10. How does Fitz get captured while he is traveling with a caravan and how does he escape?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Politics and manipulation influence much of what happens in Assassin's Quest, including some of Fitz's choices in response to others attempting to manipulate him. Discuss one of the following:

1. Describe the political situation in Assassin's Quest and how it impacts the actions of three of the major characters.

2. Discuss and analyze several people who try to manipulate Fitz and his responses to them.

3. Although Fitz is considered inferior because he is a bastard, he seems to be as deep into the political situation as any of the legitimately born nobles. Discuss why you think this is so.

Essay Topic 2

In Chapter 34, the title refers to an unfinished sculpture at the mouth of the quarry, where a woman was ready to pour her heart into the stone dragon to make it come alive but cannot bear to give up her own shape as well. She was not willing to sacrifice her beautiful body for the greater good.

1. Discuss the emotional trauma the girl on the dragon must have felt as she went only half-way with her project. How might her situation be similar to one where someone is too afraid of dying to pull a victim from a burning car?

2. When considering that one loses not only their own body but their entire life as they know it to enliven a stone dragon, do you think the girl was weak-willed not to finish her job? Why or why not?

3. Considering that the girl on the dragon still lost all that was her life, even though she went only half-way and was not used for the greater good, can you see that she gained anything by her half-way effort? Do you think this illustrates any truth about general endeavors in life?

Essay Topic 3

In Assassin's Quest it appears that most of the true heroics is done by men. This type of stereotyping is changing and women are being given more and more active, heroic and physical roles in fantasy novels.

1. Discuss in detail, with examples, the various heroic qualities that are seen in Queen Kettricken.

2. Discuss in detail, with examples, the various heroic qualities that are seen in Kettle.

3. Discuss in detail, with examples, the various heroic qualities that are seen in Starling.

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