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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Ogion tell Tenar to do right before he died?
(a) Run away
(b) Find Ged
(c) He told her to wait.
(d) Stand up to the wizards

2. Who told Lark that the child was burned?
(a) A man traveling with the tramps.
(b) The child's mother.
(c) A stranger.
(d) The child's father.

3. Where was the widow's son?
(a) He was out at sea.
(b) He was out hunting.
(c) He was in his law office.
(d) He stayed at home and never left.

4. Who did the burned child belong to?
(a) Tramps
(b) Tenar and her husband
(c) No-one knew - they had no history of the child.
(d) The king

5. What was a difficulty the companion had to face on the journey?
(a) She missed her family.
(b) She tired easily.
(c) She didn't have enough food.
(d) She couldn't see.

6. Where did the widow and her companion sleep at night?
(a) In houses of friends
(b) On a boat
(c) In fine hotels
(d) They camped along the road.

7. What did Tenar prepare to sell in town?
(a) Goat hair for the weaver.
(b) She made some pies to sell.
(c) She prepared to sell Ogion's books.
(d) She went to sell eggs.

8. What did the widow give the history of as she and the companion walked?
(a) The history of her life
(b) The history of her companion's life
(c) The history of the land they lived in
(d) She gave the story of the history of dragons.

9. What did Ged think Tenar should have let Therru do?
(a) Cook
(b) Play
(c) Clean
(d) Die

10. How did Tenar and Moss get along 25 years prior to Ogion's death?
(a) They hated each other.
(b) They were immediate best friends.
(c) There was a false acceptance between the two.
(d) They ignored each other.

11. Why did Lark come for the widow's help?
(a) She asked anybody she could.
(b) The child asked for the widow.
(c) The widow learned healing on the mountain.
(d) The widow was Lark's only friend.

12. What did the widow own?
(a) She owned fine art and a collection of antiques.
(b) She owned nothing.
(c) She owned a wealth of fabrics and jewels.
(d) She owned a flock of sheep and land to pasture them as well as two tenant's cottages and an old stone farmhouse.

13. What tool did the widow give Therru to help her on her journey?
(a) A donkey
(b) She carried her
(c) A go-cart
(d) A staff like a wizard's staff.

14. What did the widow say the hawk would do?
(a) Bring life back
(b) Fly off for help
(c) Disappear
(d) Come back

15. What happened to the tramps after they burned the child?
(a) They were killed.
(b) They felt guilty and turned themselves in.
(c) They left with all their belongings. They left the child alone and burning.
(d) They were imprisoned.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is in a true name according to the widow?

2. Where had Ged been before he came to Ogion's house?

3. What was the name of the widow's home?

4. How did the widow ease the child's difficulties along the way?

5. How did Tenar feel about mourning?

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