View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Doli separate from the group as the rest travel on?
(a) He wants to get the stone into safe keeping.
(b) He hates the Free Commot folk.
(c) He wants to avoid danger and trouble.
(d) He wants to tell his people that Morda is dead.

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

3. What is the device in the river used to do for the farmer and his family?
(a) Give him safe passage across the river.
(b) Power the mill that grinds his wheat.
(c) Catch things floating down the river.
(d) Provide a traveling bridge.

4. Why does Taran never want to see the princess again after hearing the shepherd's story?
(a) He loves her too much to let her lower her standards.
(b) He is of too low birth to ever marry her.
(c) He no longer loves her as he has found his home.
(d) He knows she would despise him after hearing he is a shepherd.

5. Why does Taran move on from his second job among the Free Commots?
(a) He does not have a natural talent for it.
(b) The work does not make him happy.
(c) He does not like his master.
(d) He feels it is beneath him.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who does Taran find at his side when he wakes after suffering injuries trying to save the shepherd?

4. What does Taran want the messenger to ask Dallben about while he stays with the shepherd?

5. What does Taran hope to make while working in the Free Commots?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the wager that Dorath puts forth to Taran, and why is Taran so hesitant to accept it?

2. How does Dorath make the fight with Taran unfair?

3. How does Taran feel about Dorath and his men when he first meets them?

4. What does Taran do to avoid having Dorath join the quest, and what happens?

5. What do Taran and the travelers find among the rocks after leaving Dorath's camp?

6. What part of his history does Craddoc tell Taran as they eat at his home?

7. What does Craddoc realize at the end of the summer, and what does he do about this realization?

8. Where does Taran take Craddoc's sheep, and what is so peculiar about the people who take them?

9. What does the weaver make Taran do when she agrees to let him become her apprentice?

10. What has Llonio placed in the river behind his house, and what is it used for?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 931 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample