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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 does the doctor NOT tell Covenant is one of the reasons it would be just as well if Covenant went home?

2. What does Covenant do after he is done bargaining with the Ranyhyn?

3. What does Mhoram do when he sees that Covenant's ring is blood red in Chapter twenty-two?

4. In Chapter seventeen why does Covenant not say anything about the orange cast on his ring that is under the red?

5. In Chapter twenty-one, what does Covenant say he knows is the only way that the dream will release him?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when the two scouts come back to the camp in Chapter seventeen?

2. What does Covenant think about and answer where Mhoram asks about Covenant's world?

3. What does Covenant begin to feel when they near the bridge in Chapter twenty-two?

4. Describe how the Lithe gets the members of the Quest out of the caverns in Chapter twenty-four.

5. What do they find when they reach Woodhelven in Chapter seventeen?

6. Describe what Bannor tells Covenant in Chapter fifteen regarding the Bloodguard's view of the white gold that Covenant possesses.

7. In Chapter twenty-two, why does Covenant say that he cannot throw his ring away?

8. Describe the conversation that Prothall and Mhoram have in Chapter twenty-four while in the caverns when Prothall tells Mhoram to leave him behind.

9. What does Mhoram eventually realize about the pain that Covenant feels through the ground?

10. What happens when Birinair is enveloped in the blue flame?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) What does the ring symbolize in the story?

2) What is the difference in the right and left hand of Thomas Covenant?

3) Why is it that Covenant was rejected by the High Wood when he grasped it with his left hand but accepted when he grasped it with is right? Why is it that the ring worked for Covenant after Mhoram put it on Covenant's right hand rather than his left?

Essay Topic 2

1) What is the purpose of the Code that is spoken of on page 280 that says, "Do not hurt where holding is enough; do not wound where hurting is enough; do not maim where wounding is enough; and kill not where maiming is enough; the greatest warrior is one who does not need to kill?"

2) Is this code kept by those in the Land throughout the book? Explain.

3) What is the difference in this Code and the Vow that the Bloodguard have taken?

Essay Topic 3

1) Covenant talks about little old ladies that pound away at hunks of granite with little hammers until they turn big pieces into little pieces on page 340. Foamfollower asks if it is a prophecy but Covenant says he doesn't know. If this were a prophecy what do you think it is alluding to?

2) What other statements are found in the story that you feel could be prophecies?

3) What role does prophecy have in the story?

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