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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 the only way to leave serewood?

2. How is Dunstan described at the beginning of the book?

3. In what month is Dunstan married?

4. What does the star do when it lands in a forest?

5. What does the girl Tristran has a crush on do when talking about marrying a widower?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Dunstan looking for when he finds the slave girl, and what does he buy from her?

2. What is strange about the meeting between the 81st Lord and his sons?

3. What happens when Tommy and Alum fight over Bridget?

4. What do the people of Wall only do once every nine years?

5. What question does Dunstan ask the man staying in his cottage, and what is the man's response?

6. What is Tristran able to do in Faerie that is strange and surprising?

7. How did the 81st Lord of Stormhold obtain the throne?

8. What does the 81st Lord of Stormhold say he is disappointed in his living sons for just before his death?

9. What happens between the lion and the unicorn?

10. What happens when the star falls into the forest?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Who are some of the people who felt obligated to protect the star, and how did they go about doing this?

Essay Topic 2

Violence was something that is resorted to a number of times in this book, and yet some characters felt justified in their violent actions. Who are some of these characters, and how did their feeling about violence affect their place in the plot and the characters who were in contact with them?

Essay Topic 3

How did Tristran's ambition and adventurous nature set him apart from all the other people in Wall? What are some of the good and bad things associated with his adventurous nature?

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