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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 does Sister Liliana tell Richard?
2. Why does Verna remove Warren's collar?
3. What does Richard kill?
4. To which of the sisters does Richard feel closest?
5. How is Kahlan feeling when she is organizing the army?
Short Essay Questions
1. What amazes Pasha about Richard in the woods and what does Richard do before they return to the palace?
2. What happens to Richard, Warren, and Verna when he returns from the woods?
3. Why do some of the soldiers bring a boy to Kahlan and what does she do? How does he respond?
4. Where does the council put Kahlan and what does she do about it?
5. Who does Kahlan find after being rescued and what does he say and do?
6. What does Richard do about the captive woman?
7. How does Verna feel about what Richard did in the village of the Majendie and about what does she warn him?
8. What is the story about Prindin and Kahlan and what he does?
9. What happens between Liliana and Richard in the woods?
10. Why is Richard able to move freely about the palace?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In Stone of Tears, it appears that most of the true heroics is done by men. This type of stereotyping is changing and women are being given more active, heroic, and physical roles in fantasy novels.
1. Discuss in detail, with examples, the various heroic qualities that are seen in Kahlan.
2. Discuss in detail, with examples, the various heroic qualities that are seen in Sister Verna.
3. Discuss in detail, with examples, the various heroic qualities that are seen in Addie.
Essay Topic 2
Kahlan made Richard go because she loves him and is scared that he will die. It takes Richard a long time to understand her love for him and the reason she asked him to leave.
1. Do you think Kahlan could have made her motivation clearer to Richard? Why or why not? Use examples from the text to support your answer.
2. In many place in the book and in the other books in this series Richard and Kahlan have made a great deal out of not lying to each other. Explain why Kahlan lied to Richard about the collar. Do you think she was right to do that? Use examples from the text to support your answer.
3. Richard throws away the lock of hair Kahlan gave him. Do you think he should have understood why she did what she did and said what she said? It seems it completely misunderstood her motives? Does that seem dense for someone who is supposed to be the Seeker of Truth? Why or why not? Also discuss how emotions might get in the way of being logical. Use examples from the text to support your answer.
Essay Topic 3
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?
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