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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 Goldmoon's mother?

2. What had Goldmoon wondered when she had looked in the back of the cart?

3. Why doesn't Riverwind trust the group?

4. How did Riverwind react to the choice Goldmoon made?

5. Where was Tas when the dragon started to burn?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is hope, to Raistlin?

2. Why did Tas' father say that kenders were supposed to be small?

3. What reasons did Laurana give Tanis for having returned to Qualinost?

4. What was interesting to note about the Tas' perception of the clerics?

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

6. Describe Laurana, the elfmaiden.

7. Why did the dragon attack the band of friends?

8. How had Raistlin changed?

9. Why aren't the prisoners of the mines fools?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Tika's reputation at the bar, and what is insinuated by the way the characters see her? What is the truth behind the rumors? How was it likely that she gained such a reputation, and how might she clear it up?

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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