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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. Why is the Queen most upset with Fitz?

2. What does Nighteyes tell Fitz about Kettle?

3. About whom does Starling ask Fitz?

4. Who does Regal leave in charge of the Buck Duchy?

5. Why does Nighteyes leave Fitz?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the Queen decide about Fitz's daughter and how did he feel? Why did he give into it?

2. What did the narrator say about the Mountain Kingdom in Chapter 23?

3. What does the narrator explain about the Skill in Chapter 3?

4. What does Fitz decide he must do after he becomes human again, and how does he feel about Burrich and Chade? What does he think about Queen Kettricken and not saving her?

5. What is Fitz's task in the caravan across the mountains, who joins him and how is he able to join him?

6. What does the narrator say of King Regal and his treatment of the Buck Duchy?

7. To what does Fitz listen as he is sleeping and what does he learn?

8. What does Lord Bright realize when the Red Ships have taken Bearns and what does he do?

9. In Chapter 15, what does the narrator tell of Kettricken and her search for her husband?

10. In Chapter 25, what does the group realize about Fitz and what do they do about it?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Assassin's Quest, there seems to be more individuals/groups who are not trustworthy than are: Discuss one of the following:

1. Name two groups/factions/individuals who are untrustworthy and analyze their actions and impact upon the plot throughout Assassin's Quest.

2. Name two groups/factions/individuals who are trustworthy and analyze their actions and impact upon the plot throughout Assassin's Quest.

3. Who do you think Fitz trusts in this book, and is his trust well founded? Who does he mistrust and why? Give specific examples.

Essay Topic 2

In Chapter 34, the title refers to an unfinished sculpture at the mouth of the quarry, where a woman was ready to pour her heart into the stone dragon to make it come alive but cannot bear to give up her own shape as well. She was not willing to sacrifice her beautiful body for the greater good.

1. Discuss the emotional trauma the girl on the dragon must have felt as she went only half-way with her project. How might her situation be similar to one where someone is too afraid of dying to pull a victim from a burning car?

2. When considering that one loses not only their own body but their entire life as they know it to enliven a stone dragon, do you think the girl was weak-willed not to finish her job? Why or why not?

3. Considering that the girl on the dragon still lost all that was her life, even though she went only half-way and was not used for the greater good, can you see that she gained anything by her half-way effort? Do you think this illustrates any truth about general endeavors in life?

Essay Topic 3

Fitz was killed and buried and was revived by Burrich and Chade. To bring Fitz back to life, he was trusted to a wolf who had been bound to him. Fitz is thinking of his past, and he wonders if he should thank these men for bringing him back.

1. Discuss in detail the types of emotional impact being dead and buried would have on a person who is then revived. Use examples from the book to support your answer.

2. Fitz's soul supposedly entered a wolf while he was buried. Discuss what you think being a wolf would do for Fitz's human mind. Use examples from the book to support your answer.

3. Using examples from the book discuss reasons why Fitz might not thank the men who brought him back from the dead.

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