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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. What does John make sure Robin knows before he leaves to visit his mother?
2. Who teaches Robin to sing?
3. Who sits by the fire at the inn the traveling group stays at their second night?
4. What is to be used for the strings on Robin’s harp?
5. What assignment is Robin given during the attack in Section 8?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the fair Robin and his caretakers attend. What activities are there, and what does Robin see that amuses him?
2. Describe Robin’s swim across the river in Section 9. What drives him to keep going, and what challenges his ambitions?
3. Describe Robin’s encounter with the Welsh soldiers. What happened, and how did he escape?
4. Describe what Robin sees in the snow on Christmas Eve, coming down the road. What is the significance to Robin?
5. What does Brother Luke mean when he says becoming lost was a lesson for them?
6. Explain how Robin is received by Sir Peter and Lady Constance. Is the meeting a kind one, or not? What does Sir Peter say to Robin that reminds him of Brother Luke?
7. Describe the White Hart. What is it, how do the men feel about it. How does it look?
8. Why is everyone nervous at the castle the night of the fog? What are they afraid of?
9. Describe John-go-in-the-Wynd’s departure. Where is he going? What does he make sure Robin knows how to do before he goes? Where does he make sure Robin knows how to go?
10. Once Robin’s group does escape the inn, where do they sleep? Why does Brother Luke insist on leaving a farthing and a prayer?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Several times in the novel, Robin seems to show an embarrassment toward his disability. Choose at least three of these moments, and describe them thoroughly. What is the situation? How does he show his embarrassment? What is the reaction from others? What do these reactions teach him, in the end, about his disability?
Essay Topic 2
Throughout the book, the title phrase “door in the wall” is used. What does this phrase mean to you? Who uses this term in the novel? What does it come to mean for Robin by the end of the novel? What are Robin’s doors throughout the book?
Essay Topic 3
The language in the novel is period specific. What does the use of the language add to the story? Would you have been as engrossed in the book had the language been more modern? Would it have been as convincing of a tale? What does this tell you about the use of period language in a period piece? Did you find the conversations easy to follow at the beginning of the novel? What did you notice by the end of the novel, in terms of your ability to comprehend conversations?
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