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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

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

4. Who does Taran befriend in the fourth of the Free Commots?
(a) An old weaver.
(b) A spry little dwarf.
(c) An injured young man.
(d) A beautiful woman.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What job does Taran take in the second of the Free Commots?

2. What does Taran make for the farmer and his family before he leaves?

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

4. What is Taran unable to do in the fourth of the Free Commots that distresses him greatly?

5. What does the shepherd realize at the end of the summer?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Taran feel about the Commot Merin.

4. What is Taran's plan to help the fourth of the Free Commots fight against Dorath and his band?

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

6. After Craddoc's death, why does Taran say he no longer wishes to find his real parents?

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

8. What is Llonio's philosophy on life?

9. After spending a season as a shepherd, how does Taran feel about his new life?

10. What items does Taran make while he is a blacksmith, and what happens to them?

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