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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 size shoe does Violet wear?

2. What color of dragon investigates Violet at Presentation?

3. Which of the following authors a guide to the academy?

4. What is the name of the dragon Violet’s mother rides?

5. Which of the following is quoted to introduce Chapter Nine?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Violet justify her use of a dagger in the Gauntlet?

2. Why is the Gauntlet so named?

3. Why does Tairn urge Violet to kill Oren?

4. About what content in the novel are readers advised?

5. Why does Violet’s mother assert she will do well at Basgiath?

6. Why do cadets attend Battle Brief daily?

7. Why are pre-bonded cadets advised to talk to each other during Presentation?

8. What reason does Tairn give for choosing Violet?

9. What trade goods does Navarre offer?

10. What is Threshing in the novel?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

To what other writer’s work in your experience does Yarros’s seem most similar? What makes the writers similar? What differentiates them? Overall, which do you regard as doing better at the craft of writing, and why?

Essay Topic 2

Consider the curriculum at Basgiath War College. How effective a curriculum does it seem to be? How does the text bear out that effectiveness?

Essay Topic 3

Conversely, given demonstrated efforts toward censorship in a number of countries, what would likely prompt bans of Fourth Wing? By which groups? Why?

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