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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. How does Zedd try to help Addie?

2. What happens when Richard tells the Mud People he wants to talk to their ancestors?

3. Why does Addie lives where she does?

4. What does a Sister tell two wizards in the basement of the castle?

5. What does Kahlan think is the reason the sisters kill themselves or each other in front of Richard?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Richard do and what does Kahlan do when the last sister comes and offers Richard the collar?

2. What is Sister Margret doing in Chapter 20 and what happens with her?

3. Who does Zedd find in the crowd after taking care of the screeling and what does she tell him? What does Zedd ask her and what is her response?

4. Who is clutching a doll and trying to tell her father something in Chapter 1? What is she trying to get her father to do?

5. What does Kahlan and Chandalen figure out after they search her sister's castle to try and find her body?

6. What does Richard see when trying to focus on the magic lesson Verna is giving him? What does he tell Verna about it?

7. Who attacks Richard and Verna while they are traveling and what does Verna tell Richard?

8. What does Richard tell Kahlan about why he won't wear a collar?

9. Why has Zedd gone to see Addie? Why does she live where she lives?

10. What does Shota tell Richard and Kahlan about the veil and what do they decide to do?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Richard is having a difficult time accepting his magic. Magic is a part of almost all fantasy books.

1. Discuss the advantages a person might have if he or she was able to use magic. Use examples from the book to support your answer.

2. What types of immoral uses might an unscrupulous person do with magic? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

3. If magic existed in the United States in the 21st. century what types of laws and regulations do you think would arise surrounding its use?

Essay Topic 2

Sister Verna continues to talk to Richard of different prophecies with Richard telling her that he doesn't understand such riddles and seemingly doesn't believe in them. Yet, Richard begins to lean very heavily on the prophecies and believe in them more and more as the story continues.

1. Trace and analyze the occurrences of prophesy in Stone of Tears.

2. Many fantasy novels include some "prophesy" in their storyline. Why do you think this is?

3. Do you think Richard knowing about the prophesies about him will help him? How could it hinder him?

Essay Topic 3

Though it is not a part of Stone of Tears, the readers are given enough information to learn that Richard was, up until a short time ago, a peasant in a small village. Discuss the following:

1. How do you think Richard has changed from who he was before he leaves his village to the Richard he is in Stone of Tears?

2. Why do you think Goodkind chooses a young, unknown man to be the hero of the series?

3. How would the book have been different if Richard had been a prince?

4. How would the book have been different if the Seeker had been a female?

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