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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. Towards whom does the Dark One's power tend to gravitate?

2. Who rules in the city where Morraine wants to attack?

3. Where is Perrin going?

4. By what are Mat and Perrin attacked while inside the Stone of Tear?

5. Where is Rand moving the Army?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Rand feel about the people of Cairhien and what is Moiraine's response to that?

2. How does Mat realize he understands the Old Tongue?

3. How does the rift between Faile and Perrin mirror the one with Gaul to Bain and Chiad?

4. About what ter'angreal does Moiraine tell Nynaeve, Egwene and Elayne and why might Moiraine be forced to use the ter'angreal?

5. How does Jordan synchronize several of the chapters with the image of the earthquake?

6. What happens to Rand when women channel and how might that foreshadow events in the future?

7. Why is Dain Bornheld in the Two Rivers and how is he being manipulated?

8. What does Mat gain from his harrowing experience in the ter'angreal in Rhuidean?

9. Do you think Lanfear's concern for Rand is genuine?

10. How does the ter'angreal doorway in Rhuidean differ from the one in Tear?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose one of the following to discuss:

Compare/contrast Rand and Mat.

Compare/contrast Rand and Perrin.

Compare/contrast Mat and Perrin.

Essay Topic 2

There is a "coup" in the White Tower and Siuan is deposed and stilled as the Amyrlin Seat. Discuss the following:

Why is Siuan deposed?

What happens as a result of the coup?

What does Min save Siuan and Leanne? Do you think she is wise to do so?

What does it mean to be stilled? How does it affect Siuan and Leanne?

What do you think about Elaida, the new Amyrlin Seat? Is she a capable replacement for Siuan?

Essay Topic 3

Jordan synchronizes the action in four chapters by inserting the earthquake that Rand causes into each separate part of the story. Discuss the following:

Does Jordan's technique of showing the impact of the earthquake which Rand causes in four places help tie the story together? Why or why not?

Discuss the impact of the earthquake in each of the four settings in which it is experienced.

Do you think this earthquake is a foreshadowing of something in the future? Why or why not?

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