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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 does Birle decide to reveal to Joaquim upon his questioning?
2. What day is nearing at the beginning of Chapter 22?
3. What changes in Orien and Birle's relationship in Chapter 21?
4. Where has Corbel gone for the summer?
5. How does Orien move about during the escape from the city after Joaquim goes his own way?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who is Lady Fortune and what does Joaquim say about her?
2. What is Birle grateful for having known?
3. How does Corbel see Birle differently now in Chapter 16?
4. How is Birle's life now in Chapter 15, living with Joaquim?
5. Describe the relationship between Joaquim and Birle in Chapter 19.
6. What sort of reputation has Birle earned in Chapter 17 amongst the people of the city while being a slave?
7. Describe Nan and Birle's meeting.
8. Birle sees a hand nailed to a board holding a gold coin and she finds out that there is another hand on the other side as well as the heads that go with the hands elsewhere at the marketplace. What do these represent and who are they?
9. What changes once Orien is back in the Kingdom?
10. Describe the relationship that Birle develops with the Earl.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Although not said specifically, the idea of karma (what goes around comes around) is hinted at several times throughout the book. Define karma and what you think it means. Find the examples in the book which exemplify karma.
Essay Topic 2
Family is an important theme, especially in the beginning of the novel. Both Birle and Orien share stories of their families with one another. What is the importance of family to each character and how has family led them to their journey? How does the idea of a family tie-in to the end of the novel?
Essay Topic 3
Birle and Orien are the novel's two main character who journey together and face many obstacles both together and separately. Analyze their relationship and discuss the dynamics of it. In the beginning, what sort of relationship do they have? How does Birle feel for Orien? How does Orien feel for Birle? What does their relationship evolve into, and how? Do you see it coming? Have any feelings changed? Has the relationship changed? How? What events lead to the decisions in the end? Use specific examples from the book.
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