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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 did Wil offer the woman for their food, drink and lodging?

2. What kinds of creature(s) lurched out of the broken Forbidding?

3. Who was lost to Ander?

4. What appears that is too much for the Elves?

5. What other life form did Wil notice was absent from the forest?

Short Essay Questions

1. How will the army divide and why?

2. What did Amberle realize, while in the Bloodfire?

3. Why had Amberle become scared?

4. How did the Demons react to Eventine's fall? How did Ander react?

5. Why didn't Allanon tell Amberle what her destiny was?

6. Why was Flyn so upset and distraught? How did Ander approach the situation?

7. What does Allanon find strange?

8. Why did Amberle express anger towards the decision making of Wil?

9. Why was Pindanon mad at Ander?

10. What does Eretria do that Wil or Amberle didn't expect?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Briefly, this book discusses financial transactions over human lives in the sale of Eretria. How does this make you feel? Why is that? Do you think Eretria would have had a better life with her father than with the Rovers? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the elven way of life as the ideal platform for the human way of life. How would things have to change in outlook for this way of life to actually take place? Do you think it is likely to occur? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the Stor's only accepting Gnomes to be healers. How does this effectively limit the applicants to strictly gnomes and therefore create a stagnation of talent and abilities? Refute or support that statement using three sources not including the Elfstones of Shannara.

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