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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 does Kettricken want to do?

2. Who wants to follow the Queen and Fitz?

3. Who nurses Fitz after he is wounded?

4. For what does Fitz use his earring?

5. What does Fitz see Molly doing in a dream?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. 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?

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

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

10. To what does Fitz listen as he is sleeping and what does he learn?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Queen Kettricken pulls Fitz aside and tells him Starling is jealous of the time Fitz is spending with the Fool, as Starling continues to believe Fool is actually a woman.

1. Do you think Starling has a right to be jealous of the Fool? Why or why not? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

2. Discuss the behaviors of the Fool that leads Starling to believe he is a woman. Which ones are stereotypes of gender behavior? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

3. Explain the problems with jealous in such a small group that is already facing many dangers and frustrations. Use examples from the book to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

Fitz was killed and buried and was revived by Burrich and Chade. To bring Fitz back to life, he was trusted to a wolf who had been bound to him. Fitz is thinking of his past, and he wonders if he should thank these men for bringing him back.

1. Discuss in detail the types of emotional impact being dead and buried would have on a person who is then revived. Use examples from the book to support your answer.

2. Fitz's soul supposedly entered a wolf while he was buried. Discuss what you think being a wolf would do for Fitz's human mind. Use examples from the book to support your answer.

3. Using examples from the book discuss reasons why Fitz might not thank the men who brought him back from the dead.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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