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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 Bisesa believe the eyes are?

2. What is the only crime worse than what Kolya has done?

3. What is the last thing that Kolya thinks about?

4. What does Cecil give away?

5. What is the second group of people Alexander's armies encountered?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ruddy seem intent upon doing?

2. What does Kolya explain and what is the Mongol's reaction?

3. What is Bisesa's fear and who echoes it?

4. Why does Kolya wish he could keep talking with Casey? Why is this?

5. What is the punishment for Kolya's leak of information and how is this not supposed to be a fate worse than death?

6. How does Bisesa believe that causality has broken down?

7. How does Kolya manage to stay alive and what is he going to do?

8. What does Kolya witness and how does it affect him?

9. What does Bisesa finally tell Ruddy what will happen to him later in life?

10. What kinds of things does the Eye compel Seeker and Grasper to do?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Bisesa pleads with the eye, explaining that she had "done all they asked." What kinds of things regarding Bisesa's relationship with Josh, the conflict between Bisesa and Sable, and the continued study of the eye might have been at the Eye's behest? What leads you to believe this?

Essay Topic 2

Examine the different view points of the characters. How do they influence the development of the story? Speculate on how the story would have progressed without the secondary characters.

Essay Topic 3

Although Kolya is originally spurred on to defeat Genghis Khan when he witnesses the destruction of Bishkek, he thinks of his wife before he pulls the trigger. Explain the author's intent by making his wife the last image that goes through Kolya's mind before he kills himself, taking Genghis with him.

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