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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 Talia suggest to help the Weatherwitch recover from the loss of her child?

2. About what does Kris worry concerning him and Talia?

3. Why are Kris and Talia commanded to leave the village that is full of ill people?

4. What does Talia think Lord Orthallen wants concerning Talia's status?

5. What surprises Kris and Talia when they sing after supper?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Talia ask Kris to go someplace and what is Tantris' interpretation of the forest's reaction to Talia?

2. What does Kris tell Talia about Dirk?

3. What happens just as Kris and Talia reach the next Waystation after leaving the village full of people with snow fever?

4. Why does Talia want to weep as she is around the people of Berrbay?

5. How is Kris protective of Dirk and how does Kris' relationship with Talia cause Kris anxiety because of his friendship with Dirk?

6. How have Talia's feelings towards Kris evolved?

7. Describe the conversation between Kris and Talia about Lord Orthallen.

8. Describe the confrontation between Kris and Talia as they finally reach the road after clearing a path from the Waystation.

9. What do Kris and Talia decide to do outside that morning and why does Kris chide Talia as they are working?

10. What causes an emotional outburst once Kris and Talia are settled into the Waystation?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the following:

1. What is a plot? What are the most important elements of a plot and their definition? Do all novels have a plot? Why or why not?

2. Write a brief synopsis of the plot of Arrow's Flight, identifying where the various elements of the plot occur (Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution or denouement). Do you find it difficult to identify the plot? Why or why not? What about the various elements of the plot?

3. Identify the major sub-plots and their elements (They may not contain every element of a major plot). Do the sub-plots add to the main plot? Why or why not. Are the sub-plots interesting in and of themselves? Why or why not.

Essay Topic 2

The social mores of Valdemar have some similarities to that of the general culture of the United States and some differences. Discuss the following:

1. Define the term mores and give examples of it from your own life.

2. Write a comparison/contrast essay of the cultural mores of Valdemar compared to those of your own culture.

3. Do you think it is harmful for young people to read novels that contain contrasting or contradictory ideas from those in which the young people are raised? Discuss thoroughly.

4. Many books over the years have been banned (and consequently unbanned) in the United States because of their controversial ideas or behaviors of the characters. Do you think a book such as Arrow's Flight, with it's more liberal sexual mores, would have been banned had it been published in the 1950's? Discuss thoroughly.

Essay Topic 3

In most fiction, readers would like all the loose ends to be neatly "tied up." Discuss the following:

1. Do you think Arrow's Flight is successful as a fantasy novel? Why or why not.

2. What about this book would motivate you to read another of Mercedes Lackey's Herald and Companion series? What would discourage you from doing so?

3. Were all the "loose ends" satisfactorily settled for you? Why or why not.

4. Do you think that a reader expects that not all loose ends are tied up in a book in a series, unless it's the last book?

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