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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. Which of the following authors a guide to dragonkind?

2. Which of the following serves as a healer for Violet?

3. Which of the following authors a healing guide?

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

5. With which of the following had Violet trained in advance of her academy entrance?

Short Essay Questions

1. What accounts for the design of the Gauntlet?

2. Why are pre-bonded cadets advised to stay at least seven feet apart during Presentation?

3. Why is the Gauntlet so named?

4. How does Navarre tradition dictate the goods of the dead be treated?

5. What trade goods does Navarre offer?

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

7. What comment is made about Red Scorpiontail dragons?

8. Why do cadets attend Battle Brief daily?

9. What reason does Tairn give for choosing Violet?

10. Why are the roads at the edge of Basgiath kept clear on Conscription Day?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

The character concept of the Mary Sue—an idealized female character, nearly always the protagonist, possessing many skills and few if any significant character flaws—originates in fan fiction, but it can be found in no few mainstream works (as can the male counterpart Marty Stu or Gary Stu). To what extent does Violet fall under the rubric of a Mary Sue? What in the text shows as much, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

A lack of formal sectional division in the novel obliges a fairly arbitrary breakdown of the text for purposes of study and discussion. On what grounds might the current divisions be in place? Why and how are they appropriate to the text?

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