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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. Who is the guide through Solace Vale?

2. Why is the temple, of all places, safe?

3. What did Raistlin wish upon Bupu?

4. What did the tangleshoot need to survive?

5. What animal was the Forestmaster?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe Laurana, the elfmaiden.

3. Why did the Speaker claim the necklace Goldmoon wore was blasphemy and attempt to tear it from her neck?

4. What had shaken Sturm badly, and why did it affect him so?

5. Why were elves so slender?

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

7. Describe the Forestmaster?

8. What did Raistlin do when confronted with the undead people of the Darken Woods?

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

10. Describe the White Stag.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Discuss Flint's fear of water. How did he manage to overcome that fear and what made it possible to do so? Had he truly overcome his fear, or just managed to put it to the back of his mind for the time being? How does the reader know this?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the relationships between each of the characters. Which characters maintain the strongest bonds, and why do you think that is? How does the allusion to previous adventures the group had shared provide a timeline and a basis of trust for the characters in this novel?

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