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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 has Lolth promised Errtu for his cooperation?

2. Where is K'yorl when Baenre calls her?

3. What quality does Alustriel think Silverymoon is losing?

4. Who joins the four people fighting with Drizzt?

5. How is Lady Alustriel wounded?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe how Uthegental is killed.

2. What has Uthegental been told to do about Blingdenstone but what does he do? What does he find?

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

4. How does Baenre know what to do about K'yorl and what does the sulfur enable her to do?

5. What does Drizzt do with the figurine in Chapter Thirteen?

6. Why does Errtu decide to obey Lolth?

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

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

9. Why does Matron Baenre want a cavern, what does Jarlaxle want to do about the battle and what does Methil suggest to him?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

At the conclusion of a novel, most readers either consciously or unconsciously engage in processing the book and usually come to a conclusion as to whether they like the book or not. Discuss one of the following:

1. Would you consider SIEGE OF DARKNESS a "good" book? Why or why not? Use examples to illustrate your stance.

2. What do you think are the elements of an outstanding novel? Analyze one of your favorite novels to see if those elements are present.

3. What are some reasons you might consider a novel a failure? Analyze a novel you think is a failure and see if those elements are in that novel.

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

In some ways, a novel that includes magic is full of "narrative contrivances." Discuss the following:

1. Define and offer examples of the literary device "narrative contrivance."

2. Does the fact that magic can do or undo almost anything change the way one reads a book whose world includes magic? For example, if one of your favorite characters dies in a world of magic, might there always be the expectation that somehow that character is not really dead, that magic will change the fact? How does a setting that includes magic change the reading experience?

3. Since magic can make almost anything happen (or not happen), then would a book such as Siege of Darkness not actually need to contain any narrative contrivances? Explain.

4. Why do you think people like to read books about worlds that contain magic? Do you? Explain.

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