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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 do Richard and Verna do at the Valley of the Lost at the beginning of Chapter 28?

2. What is the name of the black creature who attacked Zedd and Chase?

3. How do Zedd and Addie get to a healer?

4. What does Verna tell Richard about his magic?

5. What did Margret see about a Mother Confessor?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to Zedd and Addie as they are trying to decide what to do?

2. What does Kahlan and Chandalen figure out after they search her sister's castle to try and find her body?

3. What do the three women who accost Richard say and what happens when he interacts with them?

4. What do Zedd and Chase do about the screeling?

5. What happens when the two remaining sisters come to offer Richard a collar?

6. What does Richard see when trying to focus on the magic lesson Verna is giving him? What does he tell Verna about it?

7. What does Kahlan find when she follows the trail of the army that slaughtered so many?

8. What does Richard see while in the Valley of the Lost, what happens to Verna, how does Richard deal with it and what is her reaction?

9. Where does Kahlan go when she leaves the Mud People and what happens to her sister?

10. What does Shota tell Richard and Kahlan about the veil and what do they decide to do?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Though it is not a part of Stone of Tears, the readers are given enough information to learn that Richard was, up until a short time ago, a peasant in a small village. Discuss the following:

1. How do you think Richard has changed from who he was before he leaves his village to the Richard he is in Stone of Tears?

2. Why do you think Goodkind chooses a young, unknown man to be the hero of the series?

3. How would the book have been different if Richard had been a prince?

4. How would the book have been different if the Seeker had been a female?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss one of the following:

1. Trace and analyze the theme of power throughout Stone of Tears.

2. Trace and analyze the theme of magic throughout Stone of Tears.

3. Trace and analyze the theme of evil throughout Stone of Tears.

Essay Topic 3

The reader will see as the story continues that there are Sisters of the Dark that have taken over a large portion of the Sisters of the Light in secret. The Sisters of the Light work for goodness for the Creator and the Sisters of the Dark work to help the Keeper of the Underworld.

1. There seems to be a sharp delineation between good and evil and dark and light in Stone of Tears. In terms of real life do you think this is realistic? Why or why not? Use examples to support your answer.

2. Discuss the concept that no one is all good or all bad. Use examples to support your answer.

3. Choose two characters in Stone of Tears one who seems to be mostly good and one mostly evil and compare and contrast their personalities, behaviors and morals.

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