View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Angela, the herbalist, holding when Brom and Eragon ask her where Joed lives?

2. What has Brom already left for Roran when Eragon says he needs to leave a message for him?

3. Where does Eragon realize that Saphira has flown him?

4. How does Roran describe the place that he is leaving as he and Eragon walk away from their cabin?

5. What does Joed say he had believed had happened to Brom when Joed answers the door?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the experience that Eragon has when he is able to share Saphira's feelings while in flight?

2. Why does Brom tell Eragon that he must be careful while tracking the Ra'zac that killed Garrow?

3. Describe Eragon's dream while he was passed out?

4. What does Brom tell Eragon when Eragon demands to know who was the Dragon Rider that owned the elven made sword Brom gave him?

5. What does Brom tell Eragon about the magic that Eragon used to defeat the Urgals?

6. What does Horst advise Eragon to do after the strangers arrive asking questions about the blue stone?

7. Describe Eragon's first flight on Saphira.

8. Explain Eragon's feelings when he first found the stone.

9. What happens as Eragon is taking his uncle the last of the way into town?

10. In the chapter titled "An Old Friend" describe what Brom says is the best way to help keep Roran safe?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Eragon fights the Shade and after killing him Eragon has many of the Shade's memories.

1) Does this change Eragon's perception of the Shade?

2) Is it possible that there had been any of the young boy left that the Shade had taken over?

Essay Topic 2

1) When Eragon first realizes that the girl from his dreams is real he is surprised. Why is Eragon so quick to become seemingly protective of a girl he doesn't know.

2) Why does Eragon and Saphira both fear so much for her life? Are Saphira's feelings towards the girl swayed by Eragon's feelings of her?

Essay Topic 3

Explain the impact that Dras-Leona had on Eragon in terms of the priests' sacrifice and the slaves that are sold. What does this city relate to the reader? Explain.

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 1,022 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample