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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. Where does Bink kick the Manticora?

2. What was waiting for Bink in the bathroom?

3. What does Bink believe to be an untrustworthy ally?

4. Who met him on Lookout rock?

5. What animal was wounded and drank from the spring?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Trent feel about Mundania?

2. How is the geis on the Spring of Life's water self serving?

3. What is the recipe for correctly sowing wild oats, and what is the benefit to doing so?

4. What is the significance of Humfrey and Beauregard?

5. What is the shield and how did it come to be?

6. How does Bink view his long trip around the Gap?

7. What was the Covenant about?

8. How does Sabrina's behavior cause Bink to reflect on the other women he had met?

9. What happened when Humfrey tried to reveal the nature of Bink's talent?

10. Why does Magician Trent need Bink?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Draw parallels in this novel where honor is maintained at a certain sacrifice.

Essay Topic 2

Explain why the possession of a magic talent should be considered obscene by the centaurs. Hypothesize why the possession of magic should be obscene to centaurs but necessary for humans.

Essay Topic 3

How is Magician Trent's idea of controlled colonization good for the whole of Xanth? Why is it that Bink disagrees with Trent? Whose side in this argument do you take, and why?

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