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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. Why does Mare think Evangeline made her restraints looser?

2. What is the one place where Mare’s guards do not follow her?

3. What does Mare read about?

4. Why does Maven feel responsible for Thomas' death?

5. What replaces Mare's collar and leash?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why did Elara start influencing Maven’s mind?

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

4. Why does Maven always refer to the Scarlet Guard as “terrorists”?

5. What does Maven gift to Mare after her speech?

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

7. Why does Maven think that Cal would be a bad king?

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

9. Who is Samson Merandus and why is he so close to the King?

10. Why is Cameron determined to help the Dagger Legion?

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

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?

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast the first three chapters of King’s Cage to any other novel you have read, either in class or for fun. Discuss the authors’ choices of character development, dialog, action, and pacing.

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