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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. According to Linda, who was born a warrior in Hastings family?
2. Why does Linda claim that Jack's status as a warrior should be overruled?
3. What does Hastings say is the reward of winning the Games?
4. Who makes up most of the spectators at the Games as far as Jack can tell in Chapter 15?
5. What concerns Hastings most about Jack's training?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Jack learn about Hastings' previous relationship with Linda? What does Hastings say about the women in Jack's family?
2. Why is Jack called out of class in Chapter 11? What does Jack believe is happening?
3. What is Raven's Ghyll? Why has Hastings decided to take Jack there through the back way?
4. For what reason does Linda tell Jack that Hastings wants to make Jack fight in the Games?
5. What do Jack and Ellen learn will happen to a player who forfeits during the Games? What is said about the use of magic by sponsors, spectators, or wagerers?
6. Who is the first to put forth a warrior in the ceremony to register the warriors? Who does not have a warrior? Why not?
7. How does Jack manage to sneak into Ellen's room to speak to her the night before the Games? What is said?
8. Who helps save Jack's life in Chapter 11? How?
9. What habit have Hastings and Becka gotten into since Jack's recovery? How does Jack feel about Becka's continuing presence?
10. What does Hastings admit to Jack in Cumbria? How does Jack feel about this admission?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Who is Jack's opponent in the Games? How does Jack feel when he learns about the identity of this opponent? What does this person tell Jack was her role in Trinity when Jack thought she was just another student at Trinity High School? Why does Jack go to see this opponent the night before the Games? How? Does this meeting serve to help or make matters worse for Jack? What does Jack say to this opponent that makes the reader fear Jack will lose the Games due to his own inability to kill his opponent?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss one of the following objects in an essay, discussing the importance of the object and its magical properties:
1) Shadowslayer
2) Baldric
3) Magic Mirror
4) Mercedes' vest.
Essay Topic 3
Who is Leander Hastings? What role does he play at Jack's school? Why does Linda arrange for Hastings to begin training Jack with the sword? What kind of training do they do? What is unusual about the opponents Leander provides for Jack? How does Jack fair in the beginning of his training? Why does Hastings continually push Jack to do better and better in his training? What makes the reader begin to think that Hastings might have ulterior motives in training Jack? What might these motives be?
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