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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 awards had Violet’s sister received?

2. Which of the following is the chief deity of Navarre?

3. With which of the following does Chapter Nine begin?

4. Which of the following authors a healing guide?

5. Which of the following had been nonfatally rejected by the dragons?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is Threshing in the novel?

3. Why does Violet refuse to flee to the scribes?

4. Why do Navarrians disregard feathertail dragons?

5. Why is the Gauntlet so named?

6. What accounts for the design of the Gauntlet?

7. How are the dragon-rider cadets organized?

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

9. What does Violet adopt as a mantra?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Sources attest to the presence of Fourth Wing on best-seller lists. Assuming that sales figures reflect popularity, what accounts for the popularity of the novel? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

Consider the technologies on display in Fourth Wing. How well do they correspond to standards of fantasy literature? What effect on the reader does it have that they do to the extent they do? How is the effect achieved?

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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