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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 Dimitri claim is a waste of everyone's time in his letter to Rose?

2. What does the tattoo artist who gives Rose her promise mark find surprising about Rose's neck?

3. Who catches Rose by surprise in the courtyard at St. Vlad's?

4. With whom does Adrian tell Rose he has arranged to have dinner with them that night?

5. Who is Hans Croft?

Short Essay Questions

1. What causes Lissa a great amount of emotional distress as she and Rose lead Victor out of the prison?

2. What does Rose think of Adrian's father and mother when she meets them over dinner at the Ivashkov home?

3. Why does Rose expect Tatiana, the queen of the Moroi government, to be unhappy with Rose's relationship with Adrian? What is Tatiana's reaction to this relationship?

4. With whom does Rose have a mental bond? What caused this bond?

5. What is a promise mark? Why is it given to the newly graduated guardians?

6. Why does Rose allow Victor to feed from the human feeder before they begin their retreat from the prison?

7. For what reason does Rose discover that most Moroi are not interested in having her as their guardian?

8. What is making Rose nervous as she makes her way across campus in the first chapter of the novel?

9. What do Mikhail Tanner and Rose have in common that Rose is able to use to convince Mikhail not to turn her in when he catches her stealing from the guardian archives?

10. What does Rose overhear a Moroi tell Adrian that upsets her?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Who is Abe Mazur? Why is Rose surprised to find him at her guardian test? Who is Abe sitting with? Why does this concern Rose? What bothers Rose about Abe's behavior at her graduation party? What bothers Rose more, Abe's behavior with strange women or his behavior with Rose's mother? How long has Rose been acquainted with Abe? Why does Rose call Abe Zmey? Why would Abe make threats against Adrian Ivashkov? How does Adrian respond to these threats?

Essay Topic 2

Why does Dimitri attack Lissa's group on her birthday? What happens to Lissa's companions? Why does Dimitri take Lissa and Christian prisoner? Why does Dimitri not kill them? What happens when Rose confronts Dimitri during a rescue attempt? What distracts Dimitri during this fight? What does Lissa attempt to do to Dimitri? For what reason? What happens when Lissa manages to push a silver stake into Dimitri's heart? Why does this happen? What is the end result?

Essay Topic 3

What did Victor Dashkov do to Lissa in a past novel in this series? For what reason? What did Victor do to Rose and Dimitri? For what reason? Who else did Victor harm in the past? What did Victor do to his own daughter during this episode? What happened to Victor's daughter? For what reason? What does Rose realize after meeting Robert about Victor's actions all those months ago? Does this change Rose's opinion of Victor? In what way? Does this change the way Lissa feels about Victor? Explain.

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