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

2. What are the Lilim?

3. What is the Seaman's Rest?

4. What effect does limbus grass have on people?

5. What does Tristran make to help the star walk?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Charmed and Tristran already have a strange connection when they met in Faerie?

2. What has Tristran always daydreamed of?

3. How does the 81st Lord of Stormhold decide to choose the heir to the throne?

4. What amazing gift does Charmed give to Tristran?

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

6. What does Tristran do to help the star walk?

7. How is Tristran able to get through the gap in the wall when no one is allowed?

8. What happens between the lion and the unicorn?

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

10. What package is delivered through the gap in the wall nine months after the fair?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are the three things the tree told Tristran, and how did this change his mission and motivations?

Essay Topic 2

Courage and fear are two very important themes that overlap in this book many times. What are some examples of this, and how do these examples affect the progression of the plot?

Essay Topic 3

What are some of the main elements of foreshadowing from this book, and how did their fulfillment shape the course of the plot?

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