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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. Who does the faction that planned the assassination attempt want to be ruler?

2. What are Mare's manacles made out of?

3. Who attempts to kill Maven during the House Rebellion?

4. What was the Reformation?

5. Who helps Cameron begin to feel sympathy towards Silvers?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Mare discover that there was a Scarlet Guard attack on Corvium?

2. How long is Mare a prisoner before she faces Maven again? Who brings her to talk to Maven?

3. Who is the main protagonist of King’s Cage? What is their family background?

4. Who is Sonya Iral? What does Mare tell her?

5. What are the nicknames of Mare’s four guards and what is their power?

6. Why does Mare feel hopeful when Maven lets it slip that Norta is fighting two wars?

7. How does Maven twist Mare's memories after her first interrogation?

8. When Mare and Maven are talking about the war, what does he refer to the war as?

9. Why does Evangeline bring Mare to face Maven's court during the party?

10. Who is Julian Jacos? Why is he with the Scarlet Guard?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Research current and/or historical events and find a time when children were separated from families. Write a short essay detailing the reasons why this happened and what the thinking of the people or government doing the dividing. Connect this reasoning to Kings Cage; is it similar? How so?

Essay Topic 2

Analyze King’s Cage from the point of view of Norta being a utopia instead of a dystopia. Why could some consider it utopian? Cite your reasoning.

Essay Topic 3

Explore why Victoria Aveyard changes narrators. Do you think this helps or hurts the story? Would it have been logical without changing narrators? How could she have done that?

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