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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dorath do to make the fight between him and Taran unfair?
(a) Takes a rest.
(b) Calls in a second man to help him.
(c) Brings out a knife.
(d) Throws dirt in Taran's face.

2. What does Dorath tell Taran he wants before he will let Taran go?
(a) Payment for the food he ate.
(b) News of his homeland.
(c) A share of the treasure.
(d) A written promise of fidelity.

3. What happens to the shepherd's son?
(a) He is given to Dallben one spring morning.
(b) He is stolen by a wizard.
(c) He dies with his mother.
(d) He is given to a nobleman as payment for rent.

4. What does Taran find when he reaches the fourth of the Free Commots?
(a) They are starving.
(b) They need a new leader.
(c) They are the happiest people he has ever seen.
(d) The city is preparing for attack.

5. What does Taran want the messenger to ask Dallben about while he stays with the shepherd?
(a) How much land Craddoc owns.
(b) Whether or not his mother is still alive somewhere.
(c) The story of Craddoc.
(d) To send all of his things to Craddoc's house.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Taran send to speak with Dallben while he stays with the shepherd?

2. What does Taran make for the farmer and his family before he leaves?

3. What destroys the aggressors of the fourth of the Free Commots?

4. Who does Taran befriend in the fourth of the Free Commots?

5. What is Taran unable to do in the fourth of the Free Commots that distresses him greatly?

Short Essay Questions

1. After spending a season as a shepherd, how does Taran feel about his new life?

2. Where does Taran take Craddoc's sheep, and what is so peculiar about the people who take them?

3. What does Craddoc realize at the end of the summer, and what does he do about this realization?

4. How does Taran feel about his work as a potter?

5. What does Craddoc tell Taran just before he dies after falling off the ledge?

6. What has Llonio placed in the river behind his house, and what is it used for?

7. What is Taran most disappointed about after the fighting with Dorath is finished in the fourth of the Free Commots?

8. What items does Taran make while he is a blacksmith, and what happens to them?

9. What are the messages Taran sends Fflewdar Fflam to deliver after he hears Craddoc's story?

10. What is the wager that Dorath puts forth to Taran, and why is Taran so hesitant to accept it?

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