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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 is Zachary's mother's name?

2. On page 4 after a guard replaces the reading guard, when does a girl bring food to the prisoner?

3. What color does Zachary notice that the polar bear woman's eyes are when comes to tied to a chair and with a headache?

4. In "Fortunes and Fables: The Girl and the Feather," what shape scar does the princess's daughter have?

5. What does Zachary find to wear when he wakes in Book 2?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the process to become a guardian?

2. Where does Dorian take Zachary after they exchange books and what happens there?

3. What does Zachary find when he blows out a candle in a picture frame?

4. How does Simon begin going to the Harbor?

5. In Sweet Sorrows: Once, very long ago...," who is the first guard and what does he do and think?

6. How does the small girl communicate how she got to the Harbor and what she was doing at the time?

7. What happens when a little girl goes into the forest?

8. How does one become a keeper?

9. What happens when Simon tries to take Sweet Sorrows from the Harbor?

10. What happens to the pirate and the girl in Interlude 2?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Acolytes, guardians, and keepers make sacrifices. What is revealed about attaining goals and making sacrifices?

Essay Topic 2

What insights do readers gain from flashbacks in this novel? How do the flashbacks impact the narrative and develop characters?

Essay Topic 3

Point of view determines how readers view the story and characters in a story. What points of view are used in the novel? How does the author change the point of view in sections? How does changing the point of view affect what readers know about events and characters?

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