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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. How does Peter react when he hears someone coming?

2. What does Peter spend the majority of his time in prison doing?

3. How are the rescuers hidden from the guards?

4. How does he get to this room?

5. What has become of the Judge-General?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is ironic about the encounter between Flagg and Thomas?

2. How is the suspense maintained in this episode involving Peter's escape?

3. What is one thing the rescuers and Peter have in common, and what does it foreshadow?

4. List three things that happen while Peter is imprisoned.

5. What does the reader know that Dennis does not know to be the reason there are no rats in the sewer pipe?

6. How do Ben and Naomi begin to figure out how Dennis got into the castle?

7. What does Peter reveal in his note to Dennis?

8. What does Flagg learn about Peter, and how does he learn it?

9. Why does Thomas find it necessary to drink himself to sleep, and why is this potentially dangerous?

10. Which of the many themes in this story is revealed by Thomas' actions?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Peter was greatly influenced by his mother. How does this influence serve him throughout the story? Do you think it makes him weaker or stronger? How would his life have been different if he had been more influenced by his father or if he had ignored his mother's advice?

Essay Topic 2

As Peter, prepare a defense that you will present to the Judge-General describing why you are not guilty. Use examples from the story to prove how you loved your father and give examples of when you interceded on behalf of others.

Essay Topic 3

Thomas suffers from shame and guilt. Write a brief essay in which you explain what causes these feelings in Thomas and what you think he could have done differently to avoid such feelings. How do the shame and guilt trap him, and how does that entrapment add to the story?

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