View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Anodos see when he looks into the hole?
(a) Nothing.
(b) A natural staircase.
(c) The white lady motioning to him.
(d) A moving stairway.

2. What has happened to the pedestal of the figure in Anodos' dream when he finds the pedestal the next day?
(a) It is empty.
(b) It has been smashed.
(c) It is covered with a crimson curtain.
(d) It has been removed.

3. When Anodos and the knight arrive together at a house, what does the woman at the house ask the knight about her daughter?
(a) If he will marry her daughter.
(b) If he will take her daughter with them.
(c) If he will ride to the next town to get medicine for her daughter.
(d) If he has found her daughter.

4. What does Anodos hear the girl, who once had the crystal globe, doing while he is in the tower after his dream of home fades?
(a) Reciting love poetry.
(b) Crying.
(c) Talking in her sleep.
(d) Singing.

5. What must Anodos look for when he wishes to come back to the woman in the cottage on the island after he is finished exploring the island?
(a) A blue mark.
(b) A special door.
(c) A white marble figure.
(d) A red mark.

Short Answer Questions

1. What surrounds Anodos' burial site?

2. After Anodos leaves the king and reaches the edge of a forest, what does a young man warn Anodos about?

3. Why does Anodos become frustrated after the white lady wavers between her life form and her stone form?

4. What instrument does Anodos acquire from one of the dancers In the crimson hall as Anodos sings to make the white lady appear?

5. In what other place did Anodos have the same feeling he has in the crimson hall?

Short Essay Questions

1. After Anodos is buried by the knight and the white lady, why does Anodos imagine himself reborn in various forms?

2. As the knight's squire, what does Anodos feel he must do for the knight when they observe the procession of the men in the white robes?

3. What is Anodos ignoring about his part in the stories he reads?

4. Why does Anodos throw himself from the cliff into the water after he comes out of the tunnel?

5. In what way does the woman in the cottage on the island function as Anodos' mother?

6. Although little is known about Anodos' family, what speculation can be made about Anodos' father and brothers after Anodos meets the two brothers inside the tower?

7. What desire of Anodos does the knight who leads him to the tower represent?

8. What does Anodos sense about the meaning of Cosmo's story while he reads it?

9. When Anodos floats in the boat after he has thrown himself off the cliff into the water, what do the images he sees in the water show him?

10. How does Anodos demonstrate maturity as he attempts to discover the secret to releasing the white lady?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 860 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample