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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 is illustrated in Chapter Forty-one?

2. Chapter Thirty-seven starts with which of the following?

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

4. Which of the following is illustrated at Chapter Twenty-nine?

5. Book the Fourth ends with which of the following?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Edik weep when the king’s soldiers question him at the monastery?

3. In Chapter Forty-two, what is posed as something that would have been good regarding Jack?

4. Why does Edik note he cannot go backwards?

5. Summarize Cannoc’s account of leaving the throne.

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

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

8. What does Jack recognize as a sign of his desire to learn to read at the beginning of Chapter Thirty-four?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Typically, an epigraph is expected to speak to or set the tone for the work it introduces. Does the epigraph of The Beatryce Prophecy do so for the present novel? How or how not?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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