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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 Flint reveal about the dragon?

2. What wouldn't Tanis understand?

3. What did Raistlin wish upon Bupu?

4. What had Tas fallen into?

5. When did sanity end, according to Tanis?

Short Essay Questions

1. What things did Tanis remember from the ruined village of Que-shu?

2. Why was what Glinthanas said to Tanis cruel and unfeeling?

3. How had Sturm perceived the Plainsman's offer of help to watch?

4. In what ways was it obvious Matafleur, or Flamestrike, was a dragon past her prime?

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

6. What is hope, to Raistlin?

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

8. What might the Kender do to cause trouble?

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

10. How had the gully dwarfs avoided being killed, instead getting enslaved?

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

Discuss what Tanis said to Laurana while they were in the tomb of Kith-Kanan. Was this lecture justified? Why or why not? How did it make Laurana feel? How did Tanis feel after he had finished?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss three central themes for this novel. What made you consider these themes specifically, and what brought them to your attention? Explain why these are the core themes throughout the novel.

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