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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. Where does Mal bite Adam?

2. What sap does the centaur use for the potion to restore the Immortal’s memory?

3. What gem is Anja wearing when she greets Mal, Christopher, Irian, and Nighthand?

4. What is the name of the ruling sphinx?

5. What subject does Mal lament having had to study?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why are Mal and Christopher instructed to wash before approaching a dragon?

2. Why is a dryad-wood boat thought impossible?

3. Why do sphinxes ask riddles in the novel?

4. Why does Kavil’s employer want the Immortal to be a child?

5. What advice does the ruling sphinx give Irian and Nighthand?

6. Why does Mal agree to take the potion that will restore her eternal memory?

7. Why had Anja been complicit in the attack on Mal?

8. How did Anja and Nighthand meet?

9. What is the Somnulum, and what does it do?

10. Why does Mal decline to have Nighthand and Irian accompany her and Christopher to bury Gelifen?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The novel remarks that “the words with the greatest power to create both havoc and marvels are these:
“‘I need your help’” (59).

In the novel and in experience, is the remark correct? How or how not?

Essay Topic 2

Similarly, the lengths of chapters influence reading. What pattern of chapter-length is present in the novel, if any? What effect does the length of chapters have on the reading? How is the effect achieved?

Essay Topic 3

Why would an inescapable prison have wardens? What in the text and in experience explain so much? How do they do so?

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