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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Prince Cor fulfill the prophecy made at his birth?
(a) By making friends with a Tarkheena
(b) By warning King Lune about the attack
(c) By rescuing two Talking Horses from slavery
(d) By growing up in a foreign land

2. What, according to the author, is often the reward of doing a good deed?
(a) Having good luck for a year
(b) Being given a harder one to do
(c) Friends that love you dearly
(d) Getting an unfair punishment

3. Who carries Shasta's message to Cair Paravel?
(a) Chervy the Stag
(b) Marvin the Magpie
(c) Cleareye the Eagle
(d) Duffle the Dwarf

4. How does the prince plan to keep King Peter from bringing an army to Tashbaan to rescue his sister?
(a) By hiding her in a palace very far to the south of Tashbaan.
(b) By forging letters from her that say she's happy to stay in Calormen.
(c) By burning Cair Paravel to the ground and killing all of King Peter's horses.
(d) By building a large wall at the northern edge of the desert.

5. Who is Thornbut?
(a) One of Duffle's cousins
(b) A faun who advises King Edmund
(c) A dwarf who fights with Prince Corin
(d) The centaur who leads the archers

6. What is Shasta told to do?
(a) Clean out the goat pen
(b) Keep running straight ahead
(c) Sit down and eat some food
(d) Wait in the garden

7. Who gives the companions refuge?
(a) King Lune
(b) A wizard
(c) A hermit
(d) A soldier

8. Before traveling into Narnia, Bree and Hwin decide to
(a) Live with the Hermit for a few more weeks.
(b) Spend the night at the Castle Anvard.
(c) Return to Calormen and pay for their freedom.
(d) Stay in Archenland for the summer.

9. What does Shasta see when he looks back towards Tashbaan?
(a) The spires of the city
(b) Three circling vultures
(c) Only the unbroken desert
(d) A smoky-looking cloud

10. What does Hwin say to Aslan?
(a) That Aslan may eat her if he likes.
(b) She tells Aslan to go away.
(c) She asks why Aslan acts so cruelly.
(d) That she is very afraid of Aslan.

11. What happens when Shasta digs his heels into his horse's side?
(a) The horse gallops and catches up to the others.
(b) The horse neighs and refuses to move at all.
(c) The horse rears up, causing Shasta to fall off.
(d) It trots for a few feet and then slows down again.

12. What is the most notable thing that Shasta does in the battle?
(a) He cuts off someone's head.
(b) He falls off his horse.
(c) He wounds an enemy soldier.
(d) He is wounded by a spear.

13. Why does Bree want to wait before going to Narnia?
(a) He thinks it would be nicer to arrive in fall.
(b) He likes the Hermit and wants to stay with him.
(c) He wants to wait until his tail grows out.
(d) He wants to redeem himself for his cowardice.

14. How does Lasaraleen react after the Tisroc leaves?
(a) She finds the Tisroc's attitude disgusting.
(b) She wants Aravis to help her warn the Prince.
(c) She wants to go back to her house immediately.
(d) She is determined to help Aravis escape that night.

15. What frightens Shasta about the stranger beside him?
(a) That he might be part of Rabadash's army
(b) That Shasta might be going mad
(c) That the stranger might be a giant
(d) That the stranger might be a ghost

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the companions wakes up first in the valley?

2. What does Shasta hear behind him when he reaches the crossroads?

3. What does the Tisroc command the Grand Vizier to do?

4. What landmark did Shasta use to guide them through the desert?

5. What marks the southern boundary of Archenland?

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