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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 Mat say about what an Aes Sedai says?

2. What has been done to the two men that had been on guard at Fain's cell?

3. What does Loial say about the strange land that they are in after he has made the weapon?

4. What is unique about the blade that Mat carries?

5. What does Moiraine know that Nynaeve has done to Lan?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Rand find when he returns to his room in Chapter two?

2. What does Selene continue to tell Rand about the Horn?

3. What does Lan instruct Rand in while they are heading to see the Amyrlin?

4. Describe what happens when Rand first tries to use his powers on the stone to get him, Loial, and Hurin home?

5. What does Rand find when he tries to leave the castle?

6. What do Rand and the Warder discuss in Chapter one?

7. Describe Rand's encounter with Ba'alzamon in Chapter fifteen.

8. Describe how Rand and Loial take the Horn from Fain in Chapter nineteen.

9. What happens in Chapter ten when Rand walks into an abandoned home?

10. Describe what happens in Chapter eighteen when the Amyrlin comes to give Nynaeve and Egwene a lesson?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) What does the Horn represent? What else could have been used in place of the horn?

2) Is it significant that it was Mat that blew the Horn and not Rand?

3) Before reading that Mat blew the horn who would you have thought would be the character that would use it? Explain.

Essay Topic 2

1) What role does Rand play in the story? What are his strengths? His weaknesses?

2) Why does Rand fight so hard against Hurin calling him Lord and bowing before him?

3) Explain the way that Rand feels about Egwene compared to how he feels about Selene.

Essay Topic 3

1) Mim explains that Galad is so good that he would hurt the woman he was with to do the right thing. Is it possible to be 'too good?' Explain.

2) What role did Captain Domon play in the story? Is it significant that his ship left before Nynaeve and the other arrived?

3) Speculate on how the story would have been different if the Captain had not left without Nynaeve and the others.

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