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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 type of demons do Cordelia, James, and the other fight in Chapter 20?

2. What swords beside Cortana did Wayland the Smith forge?

3. Where does Matthew have a faint scar?

4. Where is James wounded after his encounter with Belial in Chapter 22?

5. Near what figure carved on a hillside is Wayland the Smith's barrow rumored to be?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Belial do when Jesse was born?

2. What happens in Chapter 20, James, Cordelia, Christopher, Matthew, and Lucie ride away from the Shadow Market?

3. Why do James, Cordelia, Anna, Lucie, and the Merry Thieves go to the Shadow Market?

4. What does James see when he wakes in Chapter 14?

5. What happens when Matthew and Cordelia go to find Wayland the Smith?

6. What does Magnus say about the pithos?

7. How does Anna say that Grace came to live with Tatiana?

8. Why is Matthew sad?

9. What does Lucie find when she goes to Jesse's coffin?

10. In Chapter 19, what has been provided for Thomas and Alastair's comfort in the Sanctuary?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What a reader knows about events and characters is determined by the point of view in a book. What is the point of view in the book? How does the point of view influence what readers know about events and people?

Essay Topic 2

Genre is a means of classifying literature. What is the genre of the novel? Why is it not science fiction?

Essay Topic 3

The protagonist is usually the hero in a story and the antagonist is usually a villain. Is there more than one protagonist or antagonist in the story? Who are the protagonist(s) and antagonist(s) and why do they play that role in the book?

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