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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 would Flick like to know about Allanon?

2. Who had found Wil and Amberle?

3. What else did the innkeeper offer Wil and Amberle?

4. Why didn't Allanon tell Wil what was to become of Amberle?

5. What did the old man on the mountain encounter that prevented him from going after Wil and Amberle?

Short Essay Questions

1. What made Amberle so fearful of the gifts the Ellcrys bestowed upon her?

2. What does Eretria do that Wil or Amberle didn't expect?

3. Why did Amberle express anger towards the decision making of Wil?

4. Why had Amberle become scared?

5. How was Rybeck the example of how a Free Corps soldier should die?

6. How did Ander understand his brother's bitterness? What was the difference between them?

7. How will the army divide and why?

8. Why didn't Allanon tell Amberle what her destiny was?

9. What does Allanon find strange?

10. What had happened to Allanon?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Ander's rise to King. How did he react to the initial idea that he would be required to become the leader of his people? Do you think this reaction was appropriate? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the King of the Silver River. What was it likely this character was? How do you know this? How might Amberle and Wil have been lost if not for the intervention of the King of the Silver River? Explain your answer.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the Reapers mistake when it killed the band of Rovers. Do you think it was an honest mistake or killing for the joy of killing? How was the death of the Rovers what gave Wil and Amberle time to make it into the Hollows? What might have happened otherwise? Support your answer from the text.

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