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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 does Harry feel about Meryl's request?

2. What are both courts trying to do with the Stone Table?

3. Where is Karrin injured in her fight with Grum?

4. What does Harry do when he and Karrin run into Grum outside of Walmart?

5. Who stopped the person from question #99?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Harry get away from the chlorofiend?

2. What does Lea show Harry and what does Harry learn from it?

3. Where does the magic carriage take Harry and Elaine and what happens immediately upon arriving there?

4. What do Winter and Summer agree to do with Harry and what do they require? Do they fulfill their bargain?

5. For what does Harry apologize to the mothers and what happens immediately when he gets outside the cabin?

6. Why does Harry call the White Council and what is the result of that call?

7. What do the mothers tell Harry he must do and what do they give him to use?

8. What does Aurora decide to do with Harry, what does Elaine suggest and what does Elaine say to Harry?

9. Where do Harry and Murphy go when they leave the store, who takes Murphy to the hospital and what do Meryl and Harry discuss?

10. Why does Harry go to the airport and what do he and Elaine discuss?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Interesting characters contribute a great deal to the success of most novels. Discuss one of the following using specific examples from the text in your discussion:

1. Harry is singly the most important and most visible character of all the characters. Discuss Harry's most prominent character strengths and flaws and how they impact the other characters in the novel.

2. Define the term "character foil" and discuss which characters serve as a "foil" to Harry's character. How do they do so? Why do they do so? How does having a foil to a character help define and make that character more complex? How does it do so in Harry's case?

3. Discuss four secondary characters. What are their flaws and strengths? How do they contribute or detract from Harry's efforts at a normal, quiet life? What is Harry's opinion of each of the four characters? Does he like them? Tolerate them? Admire or despise them? Use specific examples from the text in your discussion.

Essay Topic 2

Summer Knight falls in the genre called fantasy. Discuss the following:

1. What is the definition of genre? Fantasy genre? How do you know Summer Knight falls in the genre of fantasy? Give examples.

2. Other than entertainment, why do you think people might read fantasy?

3. Fantasy is sometimes considered second-rate fiction or that it is not good enough to be studied in academe. Why do you think this is true? Do you think it is a valid argument?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss one of the following:

1. Thoroughly analyze how the setting informs the plot in Summer Knight.

2. Trace and analyze one major theme of Summer Knight. How is the theme represented by symbolism, by the characters' behaviors, or by the action?

3. Trace and analyze two secondary themes of Summer Knight. How are the themes represented by symbolism, by the characters' behaviors, or by the action?

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