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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. What does Drizzt encourage the dwarfs left behind to do?

3. What is still happening at Oblodra at the opening of Chapter Thirteen?

4. Who are in the army that is coming to Mithral Hall besides drow?

5. What does Errtu decide about Lolth's promise?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why might those in Keeper's Dale have a rough battle?

3. Who are the first group on the dwarf side to see battle and what kind of different weapon do they use?

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

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

6. How do Pwent and his men help Bidderdoo fulfill his mission?

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

8. How is Berg'inyon feeling about the battle and what does Matron Baenre do about it?

9. What does Lady Alustriel do at the beginning of the battle and for what are her knights responsible?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 3

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.

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