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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 Smiley say he is telling everyone in the bar?

2. What does Gran'ma say is the reason that she still wants to go to the spring fair?

3. What does Gran'ma tell Thorn in Chapter five when Thorn asks where the rat creatures are as she first enters the room?

4. What does Fone get on to Phoney for in the beginning of Chapter four?

5. Why does Smiley say he had been so worried about Fone?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when the bartender comes over to demand payment from Phoney?

2. What does Lucius tell Gran'ma and the others when they arrive at Barrelhaven?

3. What does Gran'ma ask Fone after Thorn has left to go put out the fire on the roof?

4. Describe what happens in chapter five after the last of the rat creatures have been scared away from Thorn and Fone by the dragon?

5. In chapter four who does Phoney first meet on the way to town?

6. Describe the dream that Thorn has in chapter four.

7. What do Smiley and Phoney discuss in chapter five when they are first reunited?

8. Describe the scene in chapter six when Thorn first arrives back home.

9. What does Phoney say when Smiley reminds him that he won't be getting money but goods and services?

10. In chapter four what does Thorn tell Phoney about the spring fair while they are on the way to the stream?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) Speculate on what the hooded one meant by telling Phoney that their unfinished business was his soul?

2) Do you believe that the hooded one was there physically while talking to Phoney? What was meant by 'subtle methods of contacting you'?

3) Does the dragon know of the hooded figure? Why do you believe this?

Essay Topic 2

1) Describe the two rat creatures' personalities that follow Fone around.

2) Does it seem that these two are the norm for the rat creatures?

3) What does it imply to the reader to watch these two creatures interact throughout the book?

Essay Topic 3

1) Do you believe that the dragon was awakened by Fone or that the dragon already knew about Fone?

2) How do you think the hooded one knows about Phoney? Why do you think the hooded one wants Phoney's soul?

3) Why does the dragon seem to keep to close to Fone despite the fact that Phoney is the one that the hooded one wants?

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