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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 the Man in Black pour into two wine goblets?

2. The Prince tells the Count to place the Man in Black where?

3. After the author recovered from his childhood episode, what did he crave?

4. Whenever Buttercup commands the farm boy, he always answers what?

5. When Humperdinck demands that Buttercup marry him, he tells her that he doesn't want her love and will give her what?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the Man in Black outsmart and defeat Vizzini?

2. How does Fezzik end up with Vizzini?

3. What is Prince Humperdinck's demeanor as he pursues whoever kidnapped Buttercup?

4. How does Fezzik feel when he sees the Man in Black approaching after his fight with Inigo?

5. Why does Westley decide to leave Buttercup and sail to America?

6. Describe Inigo's childhood.

7. During a fancy dinner, why does the Prince storm out in a huff shouting that he will not marry Princess Noreena, a dinner guest?

8. How do Vizzini, Fezzik, and Inigo come to kidnap Buttercup?

9. How does Buttercup try to escape her kidnappers?

10. Whenever the farm boy says "As you wish", what does he really mean?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Westley goes through several transformations in the story, taking on the roles of farm boy, pirate, and a mysterious man in black. Describe who he is during each major phase of his life. Include his goals, dreams, character traits, skills, outlook on life, and how others view him. What important lessons does he learn as a farm boy? As a pirate? As the man in black coming back to his true love? How has he grown by the end of the book?

Essay Topic 2

Explain why the actual author, William Goldman, creates a fictitious author, S. Morgenstern, for "The Princess Bride", trying to pass him off as the real author.

1. How does this narrative device present opportunities for Goldman to take creative liberties with the story?

2. What tools and techniques does the author use to make his premise of another author believable?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the relationship between Fezzik and Waverly. What brings these two characters together? What forges their strong bond?

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