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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 do the Ra'zac decide to do with Brom after they have them all tied up?

2. What does Eragon see the soldiers carrying that causes him shock?

3. When they are camped at Leona Lake what happens when Brom and Eragon spar?

4. Who arrives and stops the Twin's testing of Eragon?

5. What does Brom tell Eragon not to go anywhere without while in the city of Dras-Leona?

Short Essay Questions

1. After they are out of the Hadarac Desert what does Eragon feel his new drive has become along with vengence for the death of Brom and Garrow?

2. As Eragon, Murtagh, Saphira and the elf are beginning their journey to the Ramr River what thoughts does Eragon have in regards to returning home to Roran?

3. Explain Eragon's feelings when Murtagh first says that he wants to ride with him.

4. In the chapter "The Mourning Sage" what does Eragon dream?

5. What does Eragon learn from the Ra'zac that capture him and Brom outside of Dras-Leona?

6. What do Eragon and Murtagh argue about when discussing ways to escape those foiling them in the chapter "Water from Sand?"

7. What happens when Eragon is approached for a blessing of an orphaned child?

8. What does Angela explain was the curse Brom carried?

9. What reason does Murtagh give for killing Torkenbrand?

10. Explain why Eragon is so confused after Murtagh kills Torkenbrand.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why is it so important to Eragon to keep control of his future? Would Eragon have been as accepting of going with Arya if the Mourning Sage had not come to Eragon after Eragon's battle with Durza? Explain.

Essay Topic 2

Brom and Garrow are both looked at as father figures to Eragon. Eragon continual says that Garrow raised him and is like a father to him and Eragon has the words "Like a father to me" written on Brom's grave.

1) In what ways are Garrow and Brom alike? In what ways do they differ?

2) What effect does it have on Eragon that he looses both of the men that he viewed this way?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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