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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. How does Evangeline compare her mother and father?

2. What does Cal call his grandmother?

3. Where to Mare and Kilorn go to train?

4. What Silver family existed before Norta?

5. What type of power is not allowed in the Lakelander capital?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Cameron have tattooed on her and why?

2. Why does Maven accept Orrec’s request that he marry his daughter?

3. Mare tells Kilorn that she does not know what to do with herself. What does Kilorn suggest? How does Mare react?

4. How does Mare’s lightning power come back?

5. Why does Mare panic when she sees Cameron?

6. How does Samson Merandus die?

7. How does Anabel Lerolan react when Volo Samos tells her that he is King of the Rift and will not give that up?

8. How are Evangeline, Ptolemus, and Wren able to escape the palace?

9. Why does Orrec of the Lakelands ask Maven to have Samson Merandus wait further away?

10. Why does Nanny commit suicide?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Could any of the characters in King’s Cage be described as a victim of circumstances? If so, who? Why?

Essay Topic 2

Are any of the narrators reliable? Are they all unreliable? Cite evidence to support.

Essay Topic 3

Are the roles of men and women portrayed differently in King’s Cage? Why or why not? Are there any characters that break the rule?

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