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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 does Eddard notice about Gendry, the boy apprenticed to the master armorer?
(a) Gendry has the same physical disability as Tyrion Lannister.
(b) Gendry is a mute.
(c) Gendry resembles Eddard as a boy.
(d) Gendry resembles the king when he was a boy.

2. What is the Night Watch?
(a) A group of direwolves.
(b) An organization of high-ranking soldiers.
(c) An organization of disgraced men.
(d) A group of corpses who kill mindlessly.

3. What happens when Uncle Benjen and Jon argue about the Night Watch at dinner on the night of Robert's arrival?
(a) Lady Catelyn defends Jon.
(b) Jon leaves in tears.
(c) Jon and Uncle Benjen agree to disagree.
(d) Uncle Benjen storms out.

4. What is Lord Eddard Stark doing when his wife finds him in the godswood on the night he rescued the direwolf pups?
(a) Wrestling with the direwolf pups.
(b) Thinking about the day's events.
(c) Holding a war council.
(d) Attending to various civil matters of the kingdom.

5. To whom does Eddard compare Arya?
(a) Eddard's mother.
(b) Eddard's sister, Lyanna.
(c) Arya's sister, Sansa.
(d) Arya's mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Uncle Benjen say about the Night Watch at dinner the night of Robert's arrival?

2. What does the Night Watch Guard tell Robb and Bran about Uncle Benjen's disappearance on the other side of the Wall?

3. What does Jon later realize about what Tyrion told him about the Night Watch while they were traveling to the Wall?

4. When Jon visits the injured Bran, what does Lady Catelyn tell Jon to do?

5. Why does Bran fall from a window after climbing near the First Keep?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Lord Eddard allow Jon Snow to join the Night Watch?

2. Why is Jon not permitted to participate in the activities he views from the parapet?

3. Why does the debt owed by the kingdom to the Lannisters concern Eddard?

4. Why does Cersei believe that Jaime, not Eddard, should be the King's Hand?

5. What information about the setting does the author provide in the prologue?

6. Explain what happens when Bran is climbing near the First Keep and overhears a conversation.

7. Why do Cersei and Jaime hope that Bran does not recover from his fall?

8. Why does it concern Eddard that Jaime is named Warden of the East?

9. What is the plan of Viserys, a descendant of the House of Targaryens, for his sister Daenerys?

10. In general, what does Bran's dream tell him about his family?

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