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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 was Regal doing when he dies?

2. How do the people of the land feel about the Witness Stones?

3. Who brings Fitz news?

4. What do the Fool and Fitz do one night?

5. What distracts Fitz find being suspicious of the exchange with Fool and the aftermath?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Fitz hear as he and Nighteyes are gathering supplies from the dead army?

2. What does the narrator say about the progress of the Red Ships in Chapter 37 and what does Regal do about them?

3. In Chapter 29, what did the narrator say about something Kettle taught Fitz to give him protection from Skill?

4. What is different about Regal and what does he do when he arrives where Verity and Kettricken are?

5. What does Verity want to do even though the group is with him and why?

6. What does the narrator explain about the Wit in Chapter 32?

7. What does Fitz reflect upon and what do he and Nighteyes do? How does Fitz feel about all that has happened?

8. What does Verity ask Fitz to do and what was the end result?

9. What shape is Verity in and what is he doing? What is the group's response to him?

10. Who comes to visit Fitz often and what does she bring him?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Verity is found. But rather than being the answer to all their problems, he raises new questions. The group of weary travelers are at the end of their quest, but at the beginning of entirely new challenges.

1. Often people look forward to a certain event as something they believe will solve all their problems. Discuss how you believe the group's mental and emotional states are affected by finding out that the person in whom they placed all their hopes may not be able to help. Use examples from the book to support your answer.

2. If one thinks of running a marathon and then, at the end of a grueling race, finding out he/she must run another ten miles, it would seem that those ten miles would be impossible. This is a metaphor for what has happened to the travelers. They are now faced, not with answers, but more challenges. Discuss ways in which you think the group can support each other to face these challenges. Use examples from the book to support your answer.

3. What do you think the new challenges are that the travelers must face? Do you see the new problems as being more difficult to solve then the ones they have encountered on the journey? How does their journey correspond with the idea of the "journey of life?"

Essay Topic 3

The narrator explains the magic of Wit, that bonds a human with an animal. The bond is only between a specific animal and a specific human, and they have become brothers or pack members.

1. Discuss the advantages a person might have if she/he had the magic of Wit. Use examples from the book to support your answer.

2. What types of immoral uses might an unscrupulous person use of the magic the Wit? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

3. If the Wit was a magic that existed in the United States in the twenty-first century, what types of laws and regulations do you think would arise surrounding its use?

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