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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 do Lan and Rand discover?

2. Where will Mat's escape attempt start?

3. With whom does Min meet and have tea?

4. According to the innkeeper at Bethamin's inn, who is looking for Bethamin?

5. What does Rand tell a woman to tell Cadsuane?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Mat save the Aes Sedai, Joline, from capture by the Seanchan?

2. Where is Rand after the assassination attempt and how is he rescued?

3. What do Cadsuane and her party examine inside the Hall of Counsels?

4. What does Lews Therin say in Rand's head when Rand arrives in Far Madding?

5. What do the Far Madding guards do to swords of visitors who wish entry into the city?

6. What is Bethamin Zeami's goal and how is that difficult to achieve?

7. Where do Elayne and Egwene visit in the dream world and what do they do?

8. How does Mat know the gholam is still in Ebou Dar and what do others think caused the killings?

9. What decisions does Elayne have to make with advice of Norry?

10. What does Bethamin think of Tessi and how does Bethamin decide to treat Tessi?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The Seanchan are a people from across the seas who have returned as prophesied for the Last Battle. Rather than honoring women who can channel, they enslave them and consider them animals.

Discuss the following: Discuss and analyze the Seanchan attitude about men and women who can channel. What happens to men who can channel? Women who can channel? Do you think it is just for the Seanchan to enslave women who can channel? What is hypocritical about what the Seanchan do with women who can channel? Why are the Seanchan bent on conquering this continent?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss one of the following:

1. Define irony in literary terms. Discuss the irony of the situation that the Seanchan who leash and control the damane can actually channel also. What other irony can you find in "Winter's Heart"? Do you think irony enhances the book? Why?

2. Define symbolism in literary terms. Discuss the use and meaning of five symbols you choose to analyze from "Winter's Heart". What do they symbolize? Is the symbolism obvious? Effective? Does the symbolism contribute to the enjoyment of reading?

3. Discuss five literary devices that occur in "Winter's Heart" and how they are used. Are they effective? Do they add or detract from the reading of the book? Why? Some possible devices are allusion, connotation, denouement, dialogue, flashback, figurative language, motif, metaphor, narrator, point of view, simile, mood, and puns.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the following:

1. What do you think are the characteristics of a successful novel?

2. Analyze and discuss "Winter's Heart" based upon the criteria you decide upon in #1 and judge if "Winter's Heart" is a successful novel.

3. Do you think the fact that "Winter's Heart" is a novel in a series changes the criteria upon which its success should be judged? Explain.

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