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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 is Slakk caught doing?

2. What shocks Jakkin about the hatchling?

3. What does Balakk find with his eyeglass?

4. How many hatchlings does Heat O' Mine have?

5. What does Jakkin do in response to the teasing?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Jakkin notice about Kkarina and how does she become free?

2. After Jakkin awakes again, why does Jakkin break down and sob and what does Akki do?

3. Where does Jakkin go after checking on the dragon eggs and what does he fear as far as stealing one of the eggs?

4. Describe Jakkin's procedure in caring for Blood Brother.

5. What does Jakkin see as he leaves the bondhouse and what does he have to do about it?

6. Why does Jakkin return to the breakfast room?

7. What does Likkarn say to Blood Brother after Likkarn shoots the animal?

8. Describe how Jakkin gets his dragon.

9. What does Jakkin hear as the bonders come in from work?

10. What transpires between Likkarn and Sarkkhan about which the boys tell Jakkin?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Dragon's Blood, like many, and perhaps a majority, of novels ends on a happy note. Discuss the following:

1. Why do you think many (most?) people want what they perceive as a happy or good ending to a novel? Explain your opinion. Do you? Why or why not?

2. What are three reasons to read fiction? Discuss each one in light of Dragon's Blood and whether or not it fulfills all three, two or one of the reasons you mention.

3. Do you think reading solely for entertainment is as good a reason to read as any other? Why or why not? Can any work of fiction or non-fiction, no matter how poorly written, enlighten, teach, stimulate thought? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the following:

1. Compare/contrast Jakkin at the beginning of Dragon's Blood to Jakkin at the end of the novel. How are they alike? How are they different? Are they both sympathetic characters? Which "Jakkin" would you most likely have as a friend? Why? Is each one believable? Why or why not.

2. Compare/contrast Akki at the beginning of the novel to Akki at the end of the novel. How are they alike? How are they different? Are they sympathetic characters? Who would you most likely have as a friend? Why? Is each one believable? Why or why not.

3. Compare/contrast Jakkin to Akki. How are they alike? How are they different? Are they sympathetic characters? Who would you most likely have as a friend? Why? Is each one believable? Why or why not.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the following:

1. What do you think are the characteristics of a successful novel?

2. Analyze and discuss Dragon's Blood based upon the criteria you decide upon in #1 and judge if Dragon's Blood is a successful novel.

3. Do you think the fact that Dragon's Blood as a novel in a series changes the criteria upon which its success should be judged? Explain.

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