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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is a prominent theme in this story?
(a) Peace and happiness.
(b) Guilt and shame.
(c) Pride and dishonesty.
(d) Fear and neglect.

2. What is revealed to Thomas that satisfies his urge to know more?
(a) Secret passages to the outside.
(b) Magic potions.
(c) Secret hiding places.
(d) Magic mirrors.

3. Who is the one character that people in the kingdom sympathize with and do not immediately consider guilty?
(a) Thomas.
(b) Peter.
(c) Roland.
(d) Flagg.

4. What literary technique is used to reveal what happens when the evidence is found?
(a) Flashback.
(b) Foreshadowing.
(c) Future events.
(d) Fortune telling.

5. What is one thing even the best magicians cannot do?
(a) Make themselves live forever.
(b) Make themselves come back to life.
(c) Make themselves invincible.
(d) Make themselves invisible.

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes the king's death?

2. What is foreshadowed by the aborted murder attempt?

3. Why does the king choose the gift that he gives his bride?

4. The king's adviser suggests that he take the queen's wedding gift away from the one who has found it and is using it. Why does the king not follow this advice?

5. What two things does Peter insist in his letter to the Judge-General?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is ultimately responsible for Sasha's death, and how does it come about?

2. How do the people of Delain react when Peter is arrested?

3. What does Thomas do to attempt to win his father's favor?

4. Why is Roland not concerned that his son wants to play with a dollhouse?

5. How does Peter attempt to include his brother in interactions with their father?

6. Why is Ben attacked on his way home from the market and what does he do about it?

7. What character traits are revealed in Peter through the incident with the horse?

8. What can you infer from the fact that Peter does not recognize the box used as evidence until he remembers that he lost one like it as a child?

9. How does Flagg frame Peter for the murder of Roland?

10. Why does it seem atypical that as a prisoner Peter would refuse to eat and just spend his time looking out the window?

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