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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. Which of the following knows of the king’s wolf paw?

2. In Chapter Twenty-six, which of the following reasons does Beatryce note for trusting Answelica?

3. What does Cannoc note were the last words spoken to him as king?

4. Which of the following does Edik recall his father bidding his mother let him do?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Edik see as he kneels before the man with the knife in Chapter Thirty-six?

3. How is Cannoc’s tree home described?

4. In Chapter Thirty-eight, what does Jack posit as the meaning of the prophecy concerning Beatryce?

5. In Chapter Twenty-six, what reason does Jack cite for mistrusting Cannoc?

6. What does Jack do to comfort Beatryce in Chapter Thirty-five?

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

8. What does Edik say in Chapter Thirty-six as he is confronted by the man with the knife?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Do the punishments the counselor and his king receive from Ehrengard suffice? What in the novel and in experience suggest that they do or not, and how do they suggest it?

Essay Topic 2

Explicate the significance of the protagonist’s name: Beatryce.

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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