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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 part of the Gauntlet thwarts Violet?

2. What is the name of the dragon Violet’s mother rides?

3. To which of the following is the novel dedicated?

4. Which of the following governs death in Navarre?

5. Which of the following is the chief deity of Navarre?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Threshing in the novel?

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

3. How are the dragon-rider cadets organized?

4. About what content in the novel are readers advised?

5. Why do cadets attend Battle Brief daily?

6. Why do Navarrians disregard feathertail dragons?

7. What does Violet adopt as a mantra?

8. Why does Violet’s mother assert she will do well at Basgiath?

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

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

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. How might the novel be sectioned off other than it currently is? Why might those divisions be appropriate, based on the text and its contexts of composition and reception?

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

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?)

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