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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 is Matron Baenre thinking about the problems in relation to Lolth?

2. What does the person from question number 78 do?

3. What does Catti-brie do about Berkthgar?

4. What does Catti-brie tell Battlehammer before she leaves?

5. Why must the person in question #80 follow Lolth's command?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Drizzt and Catti-brie do in Chapter Three at the beginning, who does he call, how does he call it and what do they when they finish?

2. What does Lolth tell Errtu about the pantheon and the future and what does she fear?

3. Who saves Matron Baenre from K'yorl and what does K'yorl do?

4. Who do Catti-brie and Drizzt talk to as they travel in Chapter Two, what do they ask him, what is his response and what does Drizzt promise him?

5. From where does Errtu watch the combat between the House mothers and what would he like to happen?

6. How does Jarlaxle find out that Baenre will prevail?

7. What does Gromph ask Jarlaxle and what does Jarlaxle tell him?

8. Who visits Matron Baenre in Chapter Ten and what does she tell her? What does she give her and why?

9. Who visits Jarlaxle in Chapter Ten and why?

10. What are Jarlaxle's thoughts on the discussion he had with Gromph after Gromph leaves him?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Loyalty is demonstrated in a number of ways, as is the lack of loyalty. There seems to be a great deal of loyalty in the dwarf community and very little in the drow one. Discuss the following:

1. How do you define loyalty? Is the ability and desire to be loyal an admirable trait in humans? Why or why not? What are the advantages and disadvantages of being loyal to a person? Cause? Country? Idea? What of those who are loyal to something no matter what they learn about that person, thing, ideal, country, etc... -in other words, blind loyalty.

2. Discuss and analyze why you think Drizzt is loyal to Bruenor. Is it warranted? Wise? Earned? What other instances of loyalty occur in Siege of Darkness? What about the characters loyalty to their gods?

3. What other admirable traits besides loyalty occur in Siege of Darkness? Discuss fully two of those traits with specific examples.

Essay Topic 2

SIEGE OF DARKNESS is one book in a series of novels involving Drizzt and many other characters. Discuss the following.

1. What are two advantages of writing a series of novels about the same characters? Illustrate your statements with details from the text.

2. What is a disadvantage of writing a series of novels about the same characters? Illustrate your statements with details from the text.

3. Do you prefer to read a standalone book, or a series of books with the same main characters? Explain your response.

Essay Topic 3

In the world of academe, fantasy is often considered an inferior form of the novel compared to "classic" literature. Discuss the following:

1. Why do you think fantasy might be considered second-rate compared to the classics?

2. Do you think fantasy has the same elements as the classics? Why or why not?

3. What are the purposes do you think for people reading "the classics"? What are the purposed for people reading fantasy? Is one purpose better than another? Explain your response.

4. Would you read fantasy even outside an educational setting? Why or why not?

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