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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. Which guise of the Immortal separated the Archipelago from the rest of the world?

2. In what had Anja’s ancestor worked?

3. Which of the following instruments do Mal and Christopher find in the palace of the Immortal?

4. What is one possible final ingredient of the potion to restore the Immortal’s memory?

5. How many years had passed between the burial of the last warrior queen and that of Gelifen?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do sphinxes ask riddles in the novel?

2. What is the significance of pegasan sails?

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

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

5. How did Anja and Nighthand meet?

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

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

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

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

10. What will happen if the Glimourie Tree is destroyed?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Similarly, how might the novel be sectioned off for discussion and study other than it currently is? Why might those divisions be appropriate, based on the text and its contexts of composition and reception?

Essay Topic 3

A lack of formal sectional division in the novel obliges a fairly arbitrary breakdown of the text for purposes of study and discussion. That is, there are chapters, but the chapters are not grouped together in larger sections. On what grounds might the divisions used for study and discussion be in place? Why and how are they appropriate to the text?

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