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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. What makes Dragon Sand so dangerous?
(a) It is lethal to breathe it.
(b) He is wild and untamed.
(c) Its walls are crumbling into ruin.
(d) It is highly explosive.

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

3. What is foreshadowed by the aborted murder attempt?
(a) A much larger plot to kill all of the royalty.
(b) One character's intention to gain control of the kingdom.
(c) One character's ability to get away with murder.
(d) The general dislike of the queen by everyone in the kingdom.

4. Peter turns to the very person who put him in prison to ask for help. What literary device is this?
(a) Irony.
(b) Foreshadowing.
(c) Denouement.
(d) Twist of fate.

5. What does the king give his wife on their wedding day?
(a) A dollhouse.
(b) His grandmother's ring.
(c) A replica of his castle.
(d) A horse.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the attempt on the queen's life aborted?

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

3. Why is it important for Peter to follow his mother's instructions?

4. What is one thing even the best magicians cannot do?

5. When the court magician is asked to identify the murder weapon, he takes great pains to show its strength. What does he do to prove how deadly it is?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is most important to Sasha about Peter's upbringing?

2. Describe Thomas as a young boy and tell what makes him feel as he does.

3. Why does Flagg want to kill Sasha?

4. How does Flagg keep people from suspecting that he had anything to do with Roland's death?

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

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

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

8. Briefly tell what The Eyes of the Dragon is about.

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

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

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