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

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

3. 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) It is too hard for him.
(c) He cannot make things as beautiful as his master.
(d) He hates getting so dirty.

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

5. Where does Fflewdar Fflam go at the end of the winter?
(a) To his own land.
(b) With Taran on his journey.
(c) To the Free Commots.
(d) To Cair Dallben.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the Free Commots does Taran think feels like home?

2. What destroys the aggressors of the fourth of the Free Commots?

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

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

5. What happens the first time Taran uses his new sword?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the messages Taran sends Fflewdar Fflam to deliver after he hears Craddoc's story?

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

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

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

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

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

7. How does Taran feel about the Commot Merin.

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

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

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

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