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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does the crippled man give his child to when he can no longer care for it?
(a) A traveller.
(b) King Smoit.
(c) Dallben.
(d) The Fair Folk.

2. What news does Taran hear when he first wakes after suffering injuries trying to save the shepherd?
(a) Taran is being honored as a hero.
(b) Creekdock is dead.
(c) Craddoc is not his father.
(d) Dallben is coming.

3. What does Taran find when he reaches the fourth of the Free Commots?
(a) They are the happiest people he has ever seen.
(b) They are starving.
(c) The city is preparing for attack.
(d) They need a new leader.

4. What is Taran unable to do in the fourth of the Free Commots that distresses him greatly?
(a) Make his story heard.
(b) Defeat the outlaws.
(c) Catch and kill Dorath.
(d) Deliver Annlaw's pottery.

5. What does the farmer with Craddoc's sheep credit most of his success to?
(a) Optimism.
(b) Luck.
(c) Love.
(d) Knowledge.

6. In what condition does Dorath leave Taran after the fight between them?
(a) Unconscious, but unharmed.
(b) Crying in shame.
(c) Bleeding on the ground.
(d) Glaring in fury.

7. What do Dorath and his men do when Taran asks them for some food?
(a) Completely ignores Taran.
(b) Lets Taran scrape the left-overs when the men are done eating.
(c) Makes Taran promise payment for the food.
(d) Welcomes them and feeds them.

8. What does Dorath do to make the fight between him and Taran unfair?
(a) Calls in a second man to help him.
(b) Brings out a knife.
(c) Takes a rest.
(d) Throws dirt in Taran's face.

9. How does Taran try to get help for the shepherd before he dies?
(a) He sings a chant that Doli taught him.
(b) The battle horn.
(c) He summons Dallben to him with his ring.
(d) He sends Gurgi to fetch Dallben.

10. What does the shepherd realize at the end of the summer?
(a) He is dying.
(b) Taran is not his son.
(c) Taran hates his life there.
(d) Taran was meant for more in life than this farm.

11. Why does Gurgi opt to stay with Taran and the shepherd?
(a) He does not think he can remember all the message.
(b) He fears to travel alone.
(c) He likes sheep.
(d) He does not like Dallben.

12. What does Taran suggest to the fourth of the Free Commots to trick their aggressors?
(a) Make their population look larger.
(b) Trade with the aggressors.
(c) Throw the aggressors a celebration.
(d) Make the city look vacant.

13. Who is the fourth of the Free Commots in danger of?
(a) Dorath.
(b) Lord Gast.
(c) Lord Goryon.
(d) The 3 witches.

14. What does Taran's master in the third of the Free Commots have Taran do to clear his head?
(a) Do a delivery.
(b) Take a few days off.
(c) Close his eyes and work without thinking.
(d) Meditate.

15. How did the crippled man's wife die?
(a) Bandits attacked.
(b) She fell from a cliff in the fog.
(c) An illness.
(d) Giving birth.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Taran so angry about the shepherd's death?

2. What does Taran work to make at his second job with the Free Commots.

3. What news does an urgent Gurgi bring Taran one day at the end of the summer?

4. Why does Taran never want to see the princess again after hearing the shepherd's story?

5. What is the name of the crippled man Taran meets at the rocky area?

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