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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. To which of the following are Answelica’s eyes compared?

2. Which of the following does Jack imagine Answelica saying to him?

3. Which of the following does Edik note entering into the Chronicles of Sorrowing?

4. As which of the following does Jack describe Beatryce as a monk in Chapter Twenty-five?

5. What does Jack posit Bibspeak would have said had she been present with him, Beatryce, Answelica, Cannoc, and Edik?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Cannoc’s tree home described?

2. What does Edik recall his mother often telling him?

3. What reasons does Jack give that Beatryce should not go to see the king?

4. Of which promises is Beatryce reminded in Chapter Thirty-eight?

5. In Chapter Twenty-five, what justification does Jack give for lying to Cannoc?

6. When reunited with Edik in Chapter Thirty-seven, what does Beatryce declare to him?

7. What does Edik hear in his father’s voice when he leaves the monastery?

8. What becomes of Cannoc’s crown?

9. What does Cannoc say of kings and their wants after he brings Beatryce and Jack to his home?

10. What does Edik write in the Chronicles of Sorrowing when he departs the monastery?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Edik muses on the following question (117): “And shouldn’t home be the place where you are allowed to be yourself, loved as yourself?” What answer to that question does the novel advance, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

Edik receives a number of candies to take with him when he leaves the monastery. They come in a variety of shapes; what significance attaches to those shapes, and how does it emerge from the text?

Essay Topic 3

The novel orients itself around a prophetic text: the Chronicles of Sorrowing. What significance inheres in the name of that text? How does the novel support the idea of that significance?

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