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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 Thirty-one?

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

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

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

5. Chapter Thirty begins with which of the following?

Short Essay Questions

1. What justification does Cannoc give for the fearfulness of the monks?

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

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

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

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

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

7. What becomes of Cannoc’s crown?

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

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

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

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

Overall, how does the novel address the issue of trauma? What in the text indicates as much, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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