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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. How is Nicasia related to Orlagh?

2. What is the name of Prince Balekin's home?

3. How long ago does Jude say Madoc married Oriana in Chapter 2?

4. What weapon does the stranger use to fight Jude's father in the Prologue?

5. Insweal is described as the Isle of what in Chapter 4?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Prince Cardan's character introduced in Chapter 3? What does the reader learn about Cardan?

2. What is one example of foreshadowing in Chapter 9 and what does it foretell?

3. What different types of conflict take place in Chapter 7? Explain each.

4. How is Prince Cardan treated and regarded by his peers and the teachers at the school?

5. How are the humans that Jude encounters in Chapter 12 described?

6. What mission does Jude set out to accomplish for Prince Dain in Chapter 12? Where does she go?

7. Who does Vivi introduce Taryn and Jude to in Chapter 8? How is this character described?

8. How does Jude's relationship with Locke progress in Chapter 16?

9. How does Vivi differ from Jude and Taryn?

10. How does Madoc respond when Jude is brought home by Locke in Chapter 11?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the importance of the tournament for Jude in the novel. Why does Jude want to participate in the tournament so badly? What stands in her way? How does Jude overcome these obstacles?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the author's use of irony in The Cruel Prince. Give one example of each: dramatic irony, verbal irony, and situational irony. What purpose does each example serve? How does this example affect the reader?

Essay Topic 3

Analyze and discuss the character of Locke in The Cruel Prince. What do Locke's actions say about his motivations? What aspects of Locke's character make him fit in with the other faeries? How does he stand apart from them?

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