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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. Where are the tunnels located that Firble and Belwar Dissengulp are searching?

2. What does Jarlaxle realize about how Gromph feels?

3. What do Catti-brie and Drizzt do at the end of Chapter Three?

4. What does Lolth ask the person from question # 4?

5. Why must the person in question #80 follow Lolth's command?

Short Essay Questions

1. From where does Errtu watch the combat between the House mothers and what would he like to happen?

2. What happens to Guenhwyvar when Drizzt attempts to send her back to the Astral Plane?

3. How does Jarlaxle find out that Baenre will prevail?

4. What does Drizzt ask himself about faith and what is his answer?

5. How does Berkthgar respond when Drizzt and Catti-brie are explaining why they have come and what is Catti-brie's response?

6. Who saves Matron Baenre from K'yorl and what does K'yorl do?

7. What is Catti-brie's sword's name, how did she get the sword and what does the sword want?

8. What does Lolth tell Errtu about the pantheon and the future and what does she fear?

9. Why does Uthegental Armgo visit Jarlaxle?

10. Who visits Matron Baenre in Chapter Ten and what does she tell her? What does she give her and why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the following:

1. Define irony in literary terms. Discuss the irony of the situation of Belwar being relieved when he learns the city of Bingdenstone has been attacked. Find two other instances of irony and analyze them.

2. Define symbolism in literary terms. Discuss the use of and meaning of five symbols you choose to analyze from SIEGE OF DARKNESS. What do they symbolize? Is the symbolism obvious? Effective? Does the symbolism contribute to the enjoyment of reading?

3. Discuss five literary devices that occur in SIEGE OF DARKNESS and how they are used. Are they effective? Do they add or detract from the reading of the book? Why or why not. Some possible devices: Allusion, connotation, denouement, dialogue, flashback, figurative language, motif, metaphor, narrator, point of view, simile, mood, and puns.

Essay Topic 2

SIEGE OF DARKNESS is one book in a series of novels involving Drizzt and many other characters. Discuss the following.

1. What are two advantages of writing a series of novels about the same characters? Illustrate your statements with details from the text.

2. What is a disadvantage of writing a series of novels about the same characters? Illustrate your statements with details from the text.

3. Do you prefer to read a standalone book, or a series of books with the same main characters? Explain your response.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the following:

1. What is a plot? What are the most important elements of a plot and their definition? Do all novels have a plot? Why or why not?

2. Write a brief synopsis of the plot of SIEGE OF DARKNESS, identifying where the various elements of the plot occur (Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution or denouement). Do you find it difficult to identify the plot? Why or why not? What about the various elements of the plot?

3. Identify the major sub-plots and their elements (They may not contain every element of a major plot). Do the sub-plots add to the main plot? Why or why not. Are the sub-plots interesting in and of themselves? Why or why not.

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