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

2. Where is Nighthand stabbed by a karkadann?

3. What is the name of the Immortal’s dryad-wood boat?

4. Where does Mal bite Adam?

5. How long does it take Mal and her group to reach the Island of the Immortal?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did the centaur who made the potion to restore the Immortal’s memory want living gold?

2. How did Anja and Nighthand meet?

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

4. Why is Mal apprehensive about approaching the palace of the Immortal?

5. Why does the Immortal have the maze around the Glimourie Tree built?

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

7. Why do the nereids leave Mal, Christopher, and their companions at the edge of the City of Scholars?

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

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

10. What is the significance of pegasan sails?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Which character is the second most important in the text? How does the work support such an assertion?

Essay Topic 2

Consider the ending of the novel. Does it satisfy? How or how not?

Essay Topic 3

Consider the following comment by Nighthand: “‘Berserkers do not weep,’ he said. ‘And they also do not love. How would they, when they mustn’t fear? Love has fear baked into it” (138). In your reading and experience, is his final remark—that love necessarily includes fear—true? How or how not?

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