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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 was the name of the lake they were heading towards?

2. What was the god's name that the child had never heard?

3. Why don't the bosses come down to the gully dwarf city, according to the one Raistlin befriended?

4. What was the name of Goldmoon's mother?

5. Where was the group supposed to travel to?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was there no need for talk among the companions and Verminaard?

2. What was Tanis' history?

3. What had finally caused Sturm to sleep?

4. Why did people go to the Inn in the evenings?

5. Why did the Speaker take in the child born of rape, Tanis?

6. Why won't the group split up?

7. Why did Goldmoon feel that what the elves were doing regarding the hostages was cruel?

8. Why was it strange to see a Knight in full armor at the Inn?

9. Why was the banquet held for Goldmoon's mother close to blasphemous?

10. Which person is the least trusted in the party of the companions at this point?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the groups break out from the cages bound for Pax Tharkas. What situations conspired with them to make their break out possible? How would it have been impossible otherwise, and why? Do you think they could have made it out in another way, and if so, under what circumstances?

Essay Topic 2

Although kenders are considered annoying, the group of companions relies on the whimsical nature of Tas to pull them through the darker times of the story. Discuss the Love to hate relationship of each of the group members in regards to Tas, and how they each reacted to the knowledge that Tas might be dead and gone.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the epic nature of this story. What makes it an epic and what characteristics are distinctly epic in nature? Was this the intent of the author? Why or why not? Offer proof from the story.

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