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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 Verna give the person/people she sees in the vault?

2. What kind of creature is Richard's pet?

3. What is the town that Richard is walking in, where he buys honey cakes?

4. Who is Verna angry with because she fears that she is being used by Annalina and could be the false prelate?

5. When the women run out on the deck of the boat, why do the men on the boat leer at them?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do the Sisters argue with Verna about her new rule regarding wizards and women in town?

2. How does Verna learn that someone was snooping in her office?

3. How did Richard become the next Lord Rahl?

4. Why does Tobias slap the face of the dead hunter?

5. How is Galtero's evil ways revealed in Chapter 19?

6. How does Richard kill the mriswith that appears in the General's room?

7. What is the fear that Warren instills in Verna about her role?

8. How does Lunetta gain control of the duchess?

9. How does Tobias decided that the Creator is the dream walker?

10. What does the Mord Sith that dies at the hand of a mriswith confess to Richard?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Goodkind uses more than one iteration on the theme of loss. Identify at least two themes about loss in the book, then cite an example to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

Richard and Verna are two of the most active and influential characters, whose choices affect all the other characters in the novel.

Part 1) What is their relationship? How do they co-exist, and how do they interact? What is similar about them, and what is different?

Part 2) What are some events that Richard had a direct influence upon? What are some events that Verna had a direct influence upon?

Part 3) Which character offers support to the group? Which one is stronger, and why?

Essay Topic 3

There are many references to the dead or undead throughout the book. Why do you think that is the case? Do you think it has to do with the nature of the characters, the story, or as a vehicle to introduce and understand the concept of the afterlife? Do you think the use of the undead is effective? How do living characters interact with those that have died?

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