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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Did women of magic have to give up what the men do for power?
(a) No, but they must perform a special ritual.
(b) Yes
(c) Only if the man they are with is a wizard
(d) No

2. What do many wizards deny themselves of for the sake of magical power?
(a) Sex
(b) Water
(c) Friendship
(d) Food

3. Why did Ged take the man into the village?
(a) So the villagers could identify him
(b) So he could go shopping
(c) So he could get a job
(d) So Therru wouldn't see him

4. What did Tenar think about Ged's timing for coming down the mountain?
(a) She felt that it meant he still had some power left in him.
(b) She wished he had come earlier.
(c) She was happy she had sent someone to get him.
(d) She wished he had stayed up the mountain.

5. How does Ged feel about the king?
(a) He can't wait to see him again.
(b) He is angry at the king.
(c) He views the king like a son.
(d) He's not ready to face him.

6. What did Ged say women could not be?
(a) Witches
(b) Rulers
(c) Held back
(d) Mages

7. How did Tenar feel about coming back home?
(a) She felt the pride of ownership.
(b) She easily slipped back into routine.
(c) She feared the isolation.
(d) She resented the fact that she had to come back.

8. How did the men from Havnor treat Tenar?
(a) They ignored her.
(b) They spat on her.
(c) They treated her as if she were an imbecile.
(d) They knelt before her and treated her with respect.

9. What did Ged see in Tenar before she married?
(a) Power
(b) Her future
(c) Her struggle to learn
(d) Her weaknesses

10. What did Therru like playing with?
(a) Nothing
(b) Acorns
(c) Her rag dolls
(d) Bone figures

11. What was going to happen to the men who were coming after Therru?
(a) They were sent to prison.
(b) They were to be hanged.
(c) They were to be honored.
(d) They were released.

12. When Tenar and Therru came back from the village, what had someone done at their house?
(a) They had put a spell on her.
(b) They had cleaned it.
(c) They had prepared a meal for her.
(d) Someone had ransacked the place.

13. What does Ged want to become?
(a) A mage
(b) A Wanderer
(c) A shepherd
(d) A scholar

14. Why was Tenar afraid for Therru?
(a) She felt that the girl's fear brought the cause of her fear to her.
(b) She was afraid the girl would never lear anything.
(c) She was afraid Therru would commit suicide.
(d) She felt the girl was on the edge of emotional collapse.

15. Why did Tenar decide to go to the village?
(a) They were running low on food.
(b) She wanted cloth for new clothes for Therru.
(c) She needed to sell the books.
(d) She wanted to find the strange men who had eaten with them.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Aspen treat Tenar?

2. What kind of greeting did those on the ship get when they arrived in the harbor?

3. What were the strange men looking for?

4. Where was Therru hiding when Tenar came home from the village?

5. Who helped Tenar get her house back in order?

(see the answer keys)

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