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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Peter meet his best friend?
(a) In a jousting competition.
(b) In a three-legged race.
(c) At a family dinner.
(d) At a function in honor of the king.

2. What does the king give his wife on their wedding day?
(a) A dollhouse.
(b) A horse.
(c) His grandmother's ring.
(d) A replica of his castle.

3. Peter turns to the very person who put him in prison to ask for help. What literary device is this?
(a) Irony.
(b) Twist of fate.
(c) Foreshadowing.
(d) Denouement.

4. What is it that Thomas feels guilty about, but is not responsible for?
(a) His brother's death.
(b) His friend's death.
(c) His mother's death.
(d) His father's death.

5. What action causes the Judge-General to assume Peter is guilty?
(a) He will not answer.
(b) He confesses.
(c) He bursts into tears.
(d) He has no alibi.

6. Which of the following is the Warder guarding the prisoners?
(a) Niner.
(b) Beson.
(c) Brandon.
(d) Anders Peyna.

7. What is used as evidence in finding Peter guilty?
(a) A toy that belonged to him.
(b) A note written in Peter's handwriting.
(c) His fingerprints.
(d) A box with his name on it.

8. Who assists the murderer in killing the queen?
(a) The queen's midwife.
(b) The queen's best friend.
(c) The queen's son.
(d) The queen's husband.

9. How does Thomas react when he feels neglected by his father?
(a) He tries harder to win his father's approval.
(b) He stones a dog to death.
(c) He decides to run away from home.
(d) He plans to kill his brother.

10. What does the Judge-General do with the note when he receives it?
(a) He tears it up and puts it in the fire.
(b) He decides to read it.
(c) He throws it in the fire.
(d) He puts it in a drawer to read later.

11. In order to get them to behave, mothers tell their children stories about what character?
(a) Bill Hinch.
(b) Delain.
(c) The king.
(d) Bill Finch.

12. What causes the queen's death?
(a) A poisoned drink.
(b) Childbirth.
(c) A knife wound.
(d) A broken heart.

13. Who is the one person who sees Flagg take the king a glass of wine?
(a) Roland.
(b) Thomas.
(c) Peter.
(d) Flagg.

14. What makes Dragon Sand so dangerous?
(a) He is wild and untamed.
(b) Its walls are crumbling into ruin.
(c) It is highly explosive.
(d) It is lethal to breathe it.

15. Who wants to kill the queen?
(a) Her husband.
(b) Her husband's advisor.
(c) Her maid.
(d) Her son.

Short Answer Questions

1. When a group of men recognize Peter's long-time friend, what happens?

2. Peter is glad for the information, but feels that he must do something about the note. What does he do?

3. What is foreshadowed by the aborted murder attempt?

4. What animal is used to help frame Peter for murder?

5. What is the dying king's last word?

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