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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 tell Mona?

2. What is the building like in which Tessa is being held?

3. What does Ryan say are situated around the house?

4. What is wrong with Rowen?

5. What feelings does Marklin hide?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what kind of place does Mary Jane live?

2. Why is Stuart angry at Marklin and Tommy, how does Marklin respond and what does Tommy say about the situation?

3. What does Yuri tell Ash when Ash arrives in London?

4. What are Marklin and Tommy discussing when they return to the Motherhouse, and how does Marklin feel about entering the house?

5. What does Rowan remember at the morgue and what does she think about the people who love her?

6. What phone call does Ash get in Chapter 1, and what is the result of that phone call?

7. What does Yuri tell Rowan and Michael about the Little People, and what does Rowan say is the first step?

8. What does Ash say is the reason humans want to find a Taltos and what does Yuri say about someone who could bear a Taltos child?

9. What does Ash ask Yuri to do and what does Ash tell Yuri he must not do?

10. What does Ash do when he drives to Donnelaith and what does he hear?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss one of the following:

1. Trace and analyze the theme of growth in Taltos. Consider the following questions as you write: What characters are most concerned with growth? Why? What are some symbols of growth? Symbols of rigidity? What characters seem rigid?

2. Trace and analyze the theme of courage in Taltos. Which characters struggle with this issue? Why? Which characters seem to possess courage? Why?

3. Trace and analyze the theme of death in Taltos. Consider the death of whole races such as the Taltos or the Little People. Include the homicides that happen in Taltos.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss one of the following:

1. Thoroughly analyze how the setting informs the plot in Taltos.

2. Trace and analyze one major theme of Taltos. How is the theme represented by symbolism? By the characters' behaviors? By the action?

3. Trace and analyze two secondary themes of Taltos. How are the themes represented by symbolism? By the characters' behaviors? By the action?

Essay Topic 3

Taltos belongs to the fantasy genre. Discuss the following:

1. Define the literary term "genre" and give several examples of three other genres in addition to the fantasy genre.

2. Discuss two reasons why it might be useful to label a text by genre and two reasons it might be disadvantageous to label a text by genre.

3. What do you think is the difference between a fantasy and a main stream novel? Explain.

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