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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. Which of the following teaches hand-to-hand combat?

2. Which of the following is king of Navarre?

3. As which of the following is Markham assigned?

4. From which line are green dragons descended?

5. Which of the following authors a guide to the academy?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Navarre tradition dictate the goods of the dead be treated?

2. How does Violet justify her use of a dagger in the Gauntlet?

3. At Basgiath, what is a “repeat”?

4. Why are pre-bonded cadets advised to talk to each other during Presentation?

5. How are the dragon-rider cadets organized?

6. What does Violet adopt as a mantra?

7. What advice does Xaden offer Violet while they spar?

8. What justification does Jack give for attacking Andarna?

9. Why is the Gauntlet so named?

10. What is Threshing in the novel?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What addition front matter, if any, would ease reading Yarros’s book? How would it do so? (If none, why would front matter not ease reading the book?)

Essay Topic 2

What justice system seems to be at work in the novel? How equitable is it? Explain, based on the text and experience.

Essay Topic 3

Consider the technologies on display in Fourth Wing. How well do they correspond to standards of fantasy literature? What effect on the reader does it have that they do to the extent they do? How is the effect achieved?

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