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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter Ten, which of the following does Edik draw?

2. Book the Second ends with which of the following?

3. What are Edik’s first words to Jack?

4. Chapter Eight begins with which of the following?

5. Book the First begins with which of the following?

Short Essay Questions

1. At the beginning of Chapter Fourteen, what sobriquets does Bibspeak apply to Jack?

2. Why do the monks purpose to send Beatryce on the errand to Jack’s village?

3. How does Edik describe the child’s crying in Chapter Three?

4. In Chapter Nine, whom does Edik note expecting to be literate?

5. What does Beatryce think about as she prepares to take the soldier’s testimony in Jack’s village?

6. Why does Beatryce love Edik’s roving eye?

7. What job does Jack have in his village, and why?

8. How long does Chapter Thirteen note that Bibspeak had been in the world?

9. What reason does the royal search party give to Jack for pursuing Beatryce?

10. What reason does Jack give for not wanting to know a secret in Chapter Fifteen?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Cannoc remarks that “No one comes looking for a king. For as soon as a king disappears, those who would replace him start to scheme and calculate about how to take the crown for themselves” (109). To what extent do the novel and experience bear out his remark? How do the novel and experience do so?

Essay Topic 2

Explicate the significance of Edik’s name.

Essay Topic 3

Edik muses that “Again and again, the world insisted upon betrayals, goodbyes” (63). To what extent do the novel and experience bear out his musing? How do the novel and experience do so?

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