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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. When Cardan was shot in Chapter 5, who was the real target?

2. In Chapter 8, where is the secret passageway?

3. Before Chapter 11, how many times have Cardan and Jude danced together?

4. What does Taryn feel like when she is with Locke?

5. In Chapter 7 when Jude arrives at the meeting, what does she ask the servants to bring her?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Lady Asha tell Jude about her mother?

2. Who was Cardan's mother?

3. What does Jude compare sword practice to?

4. What news does Vulciber provide Jude and others of the Court of Shadows?

5. What does Jude notice at the end of Chapter 11?

6. What is Mithridatism, and who practices it and why?

7. In Chapter 1, what does Jude say that she did five months ago?

8. What does Taryn ask Jude to do and why?

9. Why does Tatterfell serve Madoc?

10. How does the level of debauchery in the place increase in Chapter 10?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Coming of age is a theme in the novel. What characters come of age in the book? What events or circumstances cause them to come of age?

Essay Topic 2

In the novel, humans can lie. Why is it so important that humans can lie, but Faerie Folk cannot? How do Faerie Folk get around the fact that they cannot lie? How do they use deceit instead?

Essay Topic 3

Taryn brings Jude stuffed animals in Chapter 4. Why does Taryn bring Jude stuffed animals? What do the animals symbolize?

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