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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Winterfell?
(a) The time when winter ends.
(b) The residence of Lord Eddard Stark and his family.
(c) The continent where the story takes place.
(d) The time when winter arrives.

2. When Lady Catelyn tells her husband about Robert Baratheon, what does their conversation reveal about Lord Eddard's feelings about Robert's wife and family?
(a) Eddard worries about Robert's wife and her family now that Robert is injured.
(b) Eddard does not like Robert's wife and her family.
(c) Eddard is disappointed to hear of the divorce because his wife's family is very influential.
(d) Eddard holds Robert's wife and her family in high esteem, so he calls a war council to plan the rescue of the family.

3. What do Will and Ser Royce find when they return to the scene where Will made his observation?
(a) The group of beggars and thieves did not kill Will's companion.
(b) The Wall is rebuilt and the rest of Will's group is unharmed.
(c) The bodies are gone but the weapons remain in the same spots.
(d) The flood has carried away all but one member of Will's group.

4. What does Tyrion hope will happen when Bran recovers from his fall from the window?
(a) Tyrion hopes Bran will be able to continue sparring.
(b) Tyrion hopes Bran will be able to continue caring for the crows nesting in the First Keep.
(c) Tyrion hopes Bran's parents will be able to recover from the shock of Bran's fall.
(d) Tyrion hopes Bran will be able to tell about his fall from the window.

5. When do the Others show themselves?
(a) At dawn.
(b) At dusk.
(c) Summer.
(d) Winter.

6. How did Viserys and Daenerys, descendants of the House of Targaryens, lose their father?
(a) In a hunting accident.
(b) In a direwolf attack.
(c) In the war in which they lost their throne.
(d) Viserys killed him.

7. What news does the Lord Commander of the Night Watch have for Jon?
(a) Bran is awake.
(b) The Lord Commander revokes his sword fighting privileges.
(c) The Lord Commander promotes him to a training leader.
(d) Benjen Stark has been found.

8. What does Eddard tell Robert when Robert offers him the job of King's Hand?
(a) He immediately says no.
(b) He explains his reasons for why he does not want to be King's Hand.
(c) He says he needs time to think aboout it.
(d) Nothing.

9. When Littlefinger visits Eddard with information about Jon Arryn's death, what do they see outside Eddard's window?
(a) Two spies.
(b) Arya sparring with her trainer.
(c) Queen Cersei and Jaime Lannister engaged in deep conversation.
(d) Lord Baelish and Ser Hugh of Vale walking toward the house.

10. Whom does Jon befriend after he and Uncle Benjen argue about the Night Watch?
(a) Tyrion Lannister.
(b) Robert's son, Joffrey.
(c) Bran Stark.
(d) Samwell Tarly.

11. Why does Tyrion slap Joffrey across the face when Tyrion tells him to pay his respects to Lady Catelyn and Lord Eddard?
(a) Joffrey mocks Tyrion's disability.
(b) Joffrey laughs at Tyrion's request.
(c) Joffrey curses Lady Catelyn and Lord Eddard.
(d) Joffrey blatantly refuses to honor Tyrion's request.

12. Who took Robert Baratheon and Eddard Stark as wards when the opposing king wanted them killed?
(a) King Aerys Targaryen.
(b) Cersei and Jaime Lannister.
(c) Jon Arryn.
(d) Maester Aemon Targaryen.

13. What news does Lady Catelyn Stark have about Robert Baratheon for her husband when she finds him in the godswood?
(a) Robert Baratheon and his family are coming to visit.
(b) Robert Baratheon has been seriously injured in an ambush.
(c) Robert Baratheon and his family have been taken prisoner by a rival family.
(d) Robert Baratheon is divorcing his wife.

14. Who originally owned the dagger used in Bran's murder attempt?
(a) Littlefinger.
(b) Tyrion.
(c) Jaime Lannister.
(d) Ser Loras Tyrell.

15. Why does Bran fall from a window after climbing near the First Keep?
(a) Jaime pushes him.
(b) He loses his footing when the rocks around the window crumble.
(c) He and his brother are playfully wrestling.
(d) The window frame he clings to breaks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when Robb and Joffrey are not permitted to fight with real swords?

2. Where is the throne located that Viserys wants to regain?

3. What does Bran dream of doing when he gets older?

4. What does Eddard notice about Gendry, the boy apprenticed to the master armorer?

5. What is the sole responsibility of the Night Watch?

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