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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the master's official title?
(a) Sultan's Quality Control Groom.
(b) Sultan's Equestrian Steward.
(c) Sultan's Chief Steward of the Grooms.
(d) Sultan's Special Groomsman.

2. When Beauty is taken into a chamber after Lexius talks to the group, what happens?
(a) She is cleaned.
(b) She has sex with the grooms.
(c) She is given books to read.
(d) She is taught how to behave.

3. How long before being kidnapped did Laurent run away from his mistress' household?
(a) One year.
(b) One week.
(c) Two days.
(d) Two months.

4. In which of the following does Laurent allude to being interested?
(a) Owning a slave.
(b) Finding Beauty.
(c) Escaping.
(d) Being the sultan's slave.

5. What happens to the male slaves after they enter the garden?
(a) They are introduced to the harem.
(b) They are locked in a room.
(c) They are mounted on crosses.
(d) They meet the harem and the sultan.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the master say that the sultan requires?

2. What is the next process that the slaves have to go through after the master talks to them?

3. Which character was punished for speaking up by being bound, gagged, and suspended from the ceiling?

4. What is Beauty's new dream as the ship anchors?

5. What is the name of the master?

Short Essay Questions

1. What fate does the queen determine for Lexius when the ship lands at shore?

2. How does the examination the slaves undergo show dehumanization and degradation?

3. What was Beauty's Punishment about?

4. After the sexual experience that Laurent and Lexius share, how do both men feel?

5. Why did Laurent run away from Lady Elvera's house?

6. What does the reader learn about Tristan in "More Secret Lessons"?

7. Why does Tristan first feel that Laurent is disturbing the order of the sultanate?

8. How does the examination of the slaves show the feeling of the slaves?

9. What elements of foreshadowing are present in "Through the City and Into the Palace"?

10. What are the two ways that Laurent distinguishes himself in the sultan's court?

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