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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. Where does Egwene find herself as she is sleeping?

2. How does Mat sneak into the palace?

3. Where are Mat and Thom sleeping when a woman enters?

4. Who frees Gaul?

5. To what city are Nynaeve, Egwene and Elayne sailing?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Moiraine's group notice as they are traveling towards Tear?

2. What happens when Egwene and Nynaeve awake in a small room after being captured?

3. How does Faile become bewitched and who decides to help her?

4. Where does Elayne send Mat, and how is he able to escape Tar Valon?

5. How does Perrin come by a large hammer when he arrives in Tear?

6. What happens when Nynaeve and Elayne return to Mother Guenna's?

7. Who is Comer and what happens when Mat encounters the man?

8. Describe Egwene's first experience in Tel'Aran'Rhiod after using the ring to arrive there.

9. What does Mat learn from Master Gill about the task of delivering the letter?

10. Who does Mat save and how does the person reward Mat?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Siuan Sanche sends Egwene, Nynaeve and Elayne to Tear to search out the Aes Sedai who are darkfriends. Discuss the following:

1. Is it responsible for Sanche to send three relatively young women who are also not highly trained in the use of saidar to possibly go up against experienced Aes Sedai who also outnumber them?

2. Do you think that extraordinary and dangerous times warrants doing things that are unorthodox and not necessarily ethical?

3. Many inexperienced women and men volunteered to act as agents in France to gain intelligence for the British government during WWII? Is that a similar type of situation as that which Egwene, Elayne and Nynaeve are doing? (You may need to do a little research about the British agents in France during WWII. Was it moral for the British to send in fairly young and inexperienced men and women as agents in a very dangerous situation? What about the fact that they were volunteers?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss one of the following:

1. Thoroughly analyze how the setting informs the plot in The Dragon Reborn.

2. Trace and analyze one major theme of The Dragon Reborn. How is the theme represented by symbolism? By the characters' behaviors? By the action?

3. Trace and analyze two secondary themes of The Dragon Reborn. How are the themes represented by symbolism? By the characters' behaviors? By the action?

Essay Topic 3

Though it is not a part of The Dragon Reborn, the readers are given enough information to learn that Rand A'Thor was, up until a short time ago, a shepherd in a small village in Two Rivers. Discuss the following:

1. How do you think Rand has changed from who he was before Moiraine comes to his village to the Rand he is in The Dragon Reborn?

2. Why do you think Jordan chooses a young, unknown man to be the hero of the series?

3. How would the book have been different if Rand had been a prince?

4. How would the book have been different if the Dragon Reborn had been a female?

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