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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 do Fitz and Starling do?
2. What does Fitz's group suddenly realize?
3. What does Nighteyes tell Fitz about Kettle?
4. Why do the people from the Red Ships make Forged Ones?
5. What do Chade and Burrich encourage Fitz to drink?
Short Essay Questions
1. According to the narrator, what is the geography and industry of Buck Duchy?
2. How do Fitz and Starling get across the mountains and how does Fitz pay for it?
3. 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?
4. What did the Queen decide about Fitz's daughter and how did he feel? Why did he give into it?
5. What did the narrator say about the Mountain Kingdom in Chapter 23?
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. To what does Fitz listen as he is sleeping and what does he learn?
8. What does the narrator explain in Chapter 6 about minstrels?
9. What does Lord Bright realize when the Red Ships have taken Bearns and what does he do?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss one of the following:
1. Trace and analyze the theme of power throughout Assassin's Quest.
2. Trace and analyze the theme of magic throughout Assassin's Quest.
3. Trace and analyze the theme of evil throughout Assassin's Quest.
Essay Topic 2
The narrator explains the magic of Wit, that bonds a human with an animal. The bond is only between a specific animal and a specific human, and they have become brothers or pack members.
1. Discuss the advantages a person might have if she/he had the magic of Wit. Use examples from the book to support your answer.
2. What types of immoral uses might an unscrupulous person use of the magic the Wit? Use examples from the book to support your answer.
3. If the Wit 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 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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