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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What factor most encourages Peter?
(a) The hope that his escape will succeed.
(b) The knowledge that he is not guilty.
(c) The knowledge that he has support.
(d) The belief that people like him.

2. When Thomas realizes where he is, what does he think he should do?
(a) Hide and try to see what happens.
(b) Go to his father's sitting room.
(c) Go back to sleep.
(d) Return to his own room.

3. Who is the most unlikely person to help the prisoner escape?
(a) His brother.
(b) His guardian.
(c) The person who accused him.
(d) The person who imprisoned him.

4. What is so shocking about what Peter finds?
(a) It is more than four hundred years old.
(b) It was hidden there by his own father.
(c) It gives instructions for escape.
(d) It proves his own innocence.

5. How does Peter turn the tables on Flagg?
(a) He surrenders and affirms his own guilt.
(b) He says nothing and lets Flagg condemn himself.
(c) He insists that Flagg produce more evidence.
(d) He accuses Flagg of murder.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following characters is left behind after the escape?

2. How are the rescuers hidden from the guards?

3. The Judge-General invites Dennis to stay with him and provides room for him where?

4. What is Thomas' goal at the end of the story?

5. Where does Thomas wake up?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to thwart Flagg's plan to get away with murder?

2. Why does Thomas find it necessary to drink himself to sleep, and why is this potentially dangerous?

3. What happens to the five friends at the end of the story? Is this a surprise ending?

4. What leads Dennis to find the note Peter threw?

5. What is one thing the rescuers and Peter have in common, and what does it foreshadow?

6. Thomas has been sleepwalking. Where does he wake up and what is his reaction?

7. Dennis sends Peter a note and asks for a response. Since Peter has no paper and nothing to write with, how does he respond to Dennis' request?

8. What does Peter reveal in his note to Dennis?

9. How does The Eyes of the Dragon end, and why is this significant?

10. What circumstances cause Peter to reconsider and move up the time for his escape?

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