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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. Why does Taran never want to see the princess again after hearing the shepherd's story?
(a) He loves her too much to let her lower her standards.
(b) He no longer loves her as he has found his home.
(c) He is of too low birth to ever marry her.
(d) He knows she would despise him after hearing he is a shepherd.

2. Who owns what the travelers find at the rocky area after leaving Dorath's camp?
(a) A crippleled man.
(b) King Smoit.
(c) Dorath.
(d) The farmer.

3. What does Taran hope to make while working in the Free Commots?
(a) A gift for his princess.
(b) Some new clothing.
(c) A wheat grinder.
(d) A sword.

4. Why does Doli separate from the group as the rest travel on?
(a) He wants to avoid danger and trouble.
(b) He wants to tell his people that Morda is dead.
(c) He hates the Free Commot folk.
(d) He wants to get the stone into safe keeping.

5. What keeps Taran from helping the shepherd get up from the rocky ledge one day?
(a) Craddoc fights with Taran.
(b) Craddoc is too heavy.
(c) Taran is injured.
(d) Dallben tells Taran not to help Craddoc.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the travelers find at the rocky area after leaving Dorath's camp?

2. Why does Taran move on from his second job among the Free Commots?

3. What do Taran and the farmer with the large family find in a field one day?

4. What is the name of the crippled man Taran meets at the rocky area?

5. What does the farmer that got Craddoc's sheep put in the river behind his house?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Llonio's philosophy on life?

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

3. How does Taran feel about the Commot Merin.

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

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

6. What does the weaver make Taran do when she agrees to let him become her apprentice?

7. After Craddoc's death, why does Taran say he no longer wishes to find his real parents?

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

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

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

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