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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Taran hope to make while working in the Free Commots?
(a) A sword.
(b) A wheat grinder.
(c) Some new clothing.
(d) A gift for his princess.

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

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

4. What is so frustrating to Taran about the job he takes in the third of the Free Commots.
(a) He feels this has no value to men.
(b) He hates getting so dirty.
(c) He cannot make things as beautiful as his master.
(d) It is too hard for him.

5. What does Dorath tell Taran he wants before he will let Taran go?
(a) News of his homeland.
(b) Payment for the food he ate.
(c) A written promise of fidelity.
(d) A share of the treasure.

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

7. What news does an urgent Gurgi bring Taran one day at the end of the summer?
(a) The princess has written to him.
(b) Craddoc is not his father.
(c) Craddoc is injured.
(d) Dallben is coming.

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

9. What does Taran want the messenger to ask Dallben about while he stays with the shepherd?
(a) To send all of his things to Craddoc's house.
(b) The story of Craddoc.
(c) How much land Craddoc owns.
(d) Whether or not his mother is still alive somewhere.

10. What is Dorath's occupation?
(a) Bandit.
(b) Farmer.
(c) Artist.
(d) Sword for hire.

11. Where does Taran stay for the winter?
(a) Cair Dallben.
(b) With the Free Commots.
(c) King Smoit's palace.
(d) Craddoc's land.

12. How does Taran feel about living the life of a shepherd?
(a) He feels it is beneath him, but likes it.
(b) He does not like it.
(c) He loves the peace and serenity of it.
(d) He admires the physical tenacity it requires.

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

14. Which of the Free Commots does Taran think feels like home?
(a) Merlin's Commot.
(b) Merry's Commot.
(c) Commot Merclin.
(d) Commot Merin.

15. What happens to the shepherd's son?
(a) He is stolen by a wizard.
(b) He is given to a nobleman as payment for rent.
(c) He is given to Dallben one spring morning.
(d) He dies with his mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the shepherd tell Taran just before he dies?

2. What do Dorath and his men do when Taran asks them for some food?

3. Where does Taran take the shepherd's sheep at the end of the winter?

4. What does Taran's master in the third of the Free Commots have Taran do to clear his head?

5. Who owns what the travelers find at the rocky area after leaving Dorath's camp?

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