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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 Bidderdoo do when a kobold rushes him?

2. Who unites the groups defending Mithral Hall?

3. Where are Berg'inyon and his lizard riders heading in Chapter Twenty-Two?

4. What are the gnomish priests attempting to do in Chapter Twelve?

5. Why can't Bruenor get his sword out of a minotaur?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is the way to the west closed to Bensell?

2. What does Baenre decide to do after she learns that Uthegental has been killed?

3. Why does Errtu decide to obey Lolth?

4. What does Bensell do that makes the Knights in Silvers' jobs more difficult?

5. Why does Lady Alustriel finally enter the battle, what does she do, and what happens to her when she does?

6. Describe how Uthegental is killed.

7. For what is Bidderdoo responsible during the attack and what happens with him and the kobold?

8. What does Drizzt do when he goes to where Catti-brie is practicing her sword? What does he notice about her sword?

9. What does Drizzt discuss in his letter before Chapter Seventeen about the dwarfs and what does he say about them?

10. What is Lady Alustriel considering about her home city as she watches her knights battle drow?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the following:

1. Compare/contrast SIEGE OF DARKNESS world to that of "real" life. What are the advantages to each world? The disadvantages?

2. In which world would you rather live in if you possess no magical abilities? Explain your response.

3. In which world would you rather live in if you possess magical abilities and Matron Baenre is the ruler of the world where you could practice magic? Explain your response.

Essay Topic 2

One of the main characteristics of the drow and the others in the underworld is that they seem to like to inflict pain on others. They are absolutely amoral and spends most of their time torturing and murdering those they dislike, which is just about everyone.

1. Unfortunately there are a number of people in the world who seem to like to inflict pain on themselves or others. Following research on sadism, discuss why the drow are sadists with examples from the book.

2. There is obviously deep seated psychological reasons why someone would derive pleasure from pain, either their own pain or someone else. Is it possible that people who feel this way have some common factors in childhood? Discuss reasons from a childhood you think could form a person to become a sadist.

3. There is great debate in criminal justice circles as to whether someone who commits homicide is mentally ill. Some say anyone who kills another human being except in self defense has to be mentally ill because sane people don't kill other people. Do you agree with this? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Most protagonists are a mixture of admirable traits and character flaws, and Drizzt is no exception. Discuss the following:

1. Trace and analyze situations when Drizzt demonstrates his prodigious powers of military strategy. Give specific examples to illustrate your analysis.

2. Trace and analyze Drizzt's character flaws offering specific examples of these flaws in your discussion.

3. Discuss how you think Drizzt's admirable traits helped him become accepted in a society that is not his place of origin. Have his flaws impacted his life at all? Do any of those under his command seem to notice these flaws? Who? How does the reader know this?

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