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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 was the second lesson Much-Afraid learned on her journey to the High Places?

2. What does Much-Afraid do when her five enemies kept saying bad things to her along the trail in the Forest of Danger and Tribulation?

3. What could Grace and Glory see from the edge of the High Places?

4. What is the secret of the High Places?

5. At the end of the story, what did Grace and Glory realize after telling the King of Love what she wanted to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Much-Afraid could not remove the need for human love growing in her heart herself, what did she ask the priest do do?

2. How fitting was the new name the King gave Much-Afraid?

3. How did Much-Afraid react when the Shepherd suggested in Chapter 12 that he really might deceive her?

4. Why was the place Grace and Glory, Joy, and Peace went to with the King called the "Beginner's Slopes?"

5. How did the King explain the alphabet of Love and what it meant to Grace and Glory now that she was changed?

6. What did the Shepherd show Much-Afraid after they took the chairs to the top of another mountain?

7. What happened when Much-Afraid thought about throwing away all her memory stones?

8. Before Much-Afraid was anointed, what happened to the Shepherd?

9. What did Grace and Glory start to think about when she realized she could look down and see her old home from the High Places?

10. When Much-Afraid, Sorrow, and Suffering finally got to a graveyard-like setting, they were repulsed by the scene. When they came upon the deep canyon, what did they do?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the difference between the natural need for human love and the plant of love that were growing inside Much-Afraid?

Essay Topic 2

What is the significance of the Furnace of Egypt? How does Abraham's and Joseph's time there relate to the novel?

Essay Topic 3

When a baby is born parents either choose a name they like, or they look at the meaning of various names and choose one that represents the characteristics they hope their child will possess, one a name that holds a symbolic meaning to them. In what way is this similar or different to the names the Shepherd chooses for the characters who make it to the High Places? This is a general question, although good examples are the new names give to Much-Afraid, Sorrow and Suffering. What does their new name tell you about them? What does it tell you about the Shepherd?

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