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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. In Chapter 1, how does Willa get across the river?

2. What do the Cherokee calll Willa's people?

3. In Chapter 5 when Willa falls in the water, how far are her lair and clan up through the mountains?

4. How old are some of the handprints on a wall near Willa's den in Chapter 14?

5. In Chapter 10, when did Gredic take charge of the jaetters?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the padran get caught in a trap?

2. Why were Willa and Gredic the last jaetters to be initiated into the Dead Hollow clan?

3. Who is Luthein, and why does she come to help Willa when Willa calls?

4. In Chapter 14, what are on the walls of the tunnel near Willa's den?

5. What does Willa do when she realizes that Luthien is going to walk into a steel trap?

6. What has the padaran been doing with the things the jaetters steal from the day-folk?

7. Why does Willa steal things from homesteaders' lairs?

8. In Chapter 18, what does the padaran look like when he enters the Hall of the Padran?

9. In Chapter 11, who confronts Willa and how does she get away?

10. Where does the padaran say that the day-folk come from?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Willa only takes half of what she might steal from a homesteader. Why does Willa only take half of what she might steal from a homesteader? Why does she leave a ring behind when she steals from Nathaniel? What does empathy have to do with how and what Willa steals?

Essay Topic 2

The Hall of Padaran used to be called the Hall of the Glittering Birds and was a place of grandeur. How is the hall rotting and decaying? How and why does it symbolize the clan?

Essay Topic 3

Willa returns to Dead Hollow for Iska knowing it may cost her. What does Willa realize it may cost her to return to Dead Hollow for Iska? Why does she return anyway?

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