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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 Verdin say about Mat and his illness?

2. What are the shards that Moiraine shows to Rand at the end of the story?

3. What does Rand suddenly remember at the end of Chapter forty-seven while he is battling Ba'alzamon?

4. What does Zera tell Thom he should do after Rand has gone?

5. What does Verin say after she has laid hands on Trayal's body?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Liandrin tell Egwene and Nynaeve in Chapter thirty-eight?

2. What happens when Liandrin sends the girls through the Waygate into Toman Head?

3. What does the second letter say that Selene leaves for Rand in Chapter twenty-seven?

4. What is discovered about the sal'dam after the collars are put on two of the sul'dam by Nynaeve?

5. What happens after Mat blows the horn?

6. Describe what happens in Chapter twenty-eight when Ing'tar and his men come upon an Aeil.

7. Describe the conversation that Rand and Thom have in Chapter twenty-six.

8. What does Ing'tar explain in the end of Chapter forty-six?

9. What does Barthanes tell Rand as Rand is leaving Barthanes's home?

10. What does Loial explain he is afraid is going to happen when he is at the stedding in Chapter thirty-five?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) What does it signify that Ba'alzamon's face is always burned and that he has fire in his eyes?

2) What other ways could he be described but give the same perception to readers?

3) How closely linked are the fates of Ba'alzamon and Rand?

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) Why was Thom focused on and Dena killed?

2) Speculate on what role Thom will play in the rest of the series.

3) What were the reasons that Thom would not follow Rand? Why did Rand want Thom along so badly? Will Thom look for Rand with Dena dead?

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