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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 color does Imogen dye her hair?

2. What is the name of the dragon Jack rides?

3. What treaty exists between Navarre and Krovla?

4. From which line are green dragons descended?

5. How many switchbacks does the Gauntlet feature?

Short Essay Questions

1. To what does Violet owe her physical condition?

2. Why do cadets attend Battle Brief daily?

3. What comment is made about Red Scorpiontail dragons?

4. What justification does Jack give for attacking Andarna?

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

6. What does Violet adopt as a mantra?

7. What accounts for the design of the Gauntlet?

8. Why does Violet refuse to flee to the scribes?

9. What is Threshing in the novel?

10. Why does Tairn urge Violet to kill Oren?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

A lack of formal sectional division in the novel obliges a fairly arbitrary breakdown of the text for purposes of study and discussion. On what grounds might the current divisions be in place? Why and how are they appropriate to the text?

Essay Topic 2

Consider the curriculum at Basgiath War College. How effective a curriculum does it seem to be? How does the text bear out that effectiveness?

Essay Topic 3

Conversely, given demonstrated efforts toward censorship in a number of countries, what would likely prompt bans of Fourth Wing? By which groups? Why?

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