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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. For what does Chade want Fitz to use the skill?

2. What does Fitz trade in Landing for his journey?

3. Who rescues Fitz?

4. Why does Fitz leave his body in Chapter 8?

5. What are the two side effects of the Skill?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Fitz feeling as he walks to Tradeford and what does he find out there about Regal's residence?

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

3. What does Fitz explain to Chade about Verity and what does Chade ask him to do? What is Fitz's response?

4. Who came to see Fitz while he was recovering and what did they want Fitz's daughter to do? What was Fitz's reaction to this?

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

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

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

8. Who does Fitz see in a cage and why are they there?

9. What did the Queen decide about Fitz's daughter and how did he feel? Why did he give into it?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

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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