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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 did Much-Afraid feel after listening to the things Pride said about the Shepherd and her journey?

2. What did Much-Afraid do after refusing to go down the trail?

3. What did Much-Afraid do to remember the altar and what she did there?

4. Where did the Chief Shepherd pasture His sheep?

5. After weeping about the journey and how long it was taking, what did Much-Afraid find?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened when Much-Afraid was trapped at the cliff on the Shores of Loneliness?

2. Why was Much-Afraid so insistent she was not going to call the Shepherd for help as she stood at the bottom of the precipice?

3. How did Much-Afraid deal with the frightening picture Craven Fear had created about going up the steep precipice?

4. What is the Shepherd's message in the metaphors about the threshing and the pottery?

5. Where was the Shepherd going to take Much-Afraid to get away from her family and start a new life?

6. How did the Shepherd rebuke Much-Afraid after her first encounter with Pride on the trail?

7. What did Much-Afraid fear most about her family?

8. How did the Shepherd compare the flow of a stream downward to what people on the High Places of Love can do?

9. Why is the golden flower named Acceptance-with-Joy?

10. How does the name "Much-Afraid" fit the main character's persona?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Take a closer look at the "Water Song." What is the symbolism in this song as it relates to Much-Afraid's journey to go higher? Later in the story there is the waterfall coming from the Kingdom of Love. What do both of these songs tell the reader about the message in this novel? Do their words help prepare the reader for the meaning of the final chapter? In what ways?

Essay Topic 2

How difficult are the various parts of the journey compared to one another? An example being, the beginning of the story where Much-Afraid made the decision to follow the Shepherd vs. the final part of the journey where she must give over her need for human love as a burnt offering. Do the challenges she faces get progressively more difficult? Or, is the difficulty collective, in that as she tires from the journey the challenges seem more difficult? In any case, what is it that gives her the strength to continue?

Essay Topic 3

What do the different characters show the readers about themselves? Do the characters show the readers anything about themselves, like traits that a positive or negative in some way? List some characters and their traits and explain how they may all relate to a single person.

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