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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, Across the Desert.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Queen Susan want to do?
(a) Leave Tashbaan as soon as possible
(b) Stay another week so that she can shop
(c) Throw a big party in the palace
(d) Get married to Prince Rabadash

2. Why couldn't Shasta walk across the desert?
(a) He was busy looking for signs of the valley.
(b) He cut his foot on a rock during the night.
(c) He had no shoes to protect his feet from the heat.
(d) He sprained his ankle while waiting for the others.

3. What frightens Bree the most?
(a) The sound of a lion roaring
(b) That Shasta might be killed
(c) The sight of a Calormene guard
(d) Having to swim across the river

4. What didn't Shasta learn about riding from Bree
(a) How to mount a horse
(b) How to trot, canter, and gallop
(c) How to use the reins
(d) How to grip with his knees

5. What does Shasta figure out about King Edmund and Queen Susan?
(a) That they are under a magical enchantment
(b) That they are brother and sister
(c) That they have been traveling for weeks
(d) That they were born outside Narnia

Short Answer Questions

1. What is King Edmund worried about?

2. How does Aravis get to Lasaraleen's house unseen?

3. Where did the companions stop to rest during the day?

4. How does Prince Corin return?

5. When did the horses finally stop for the night?

(see the answer key)

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