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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 do Rand and Lan expect to find on Blue Carp Street?

2. Why do no people inhabit the place Elayne and Egwene visit?

3. What hints at the fact that Rand may be in the same city as Cadsuane?

4. What does Elayne learn when she returns to the palace after talking with the commander?

5. How do Rand and Nynaeve cleanse saidin?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Lews Therin say in Rand's head when Rand arrives in Far Madding?

2. What is Bethamin Zeami's goal and how is that difficult to achieve?

3. What agreement do Elayne and the commander of an army that is camped near Caemlyn make?

4. What does Mat remember to check on for the fireworks maker and what does he learn?

5. What important work do Rand and Nynaeve accomplish with the Choedan Kal?

6. What has Birgitte been busy doing that Mellar reports?

7. Where is Tylin going when Mat rides with her to the city gates?

8. How is Mat preparing to leave the palace without Tylin noticing?

9. What do the Far Madding guards do to swords of visitors who wish entry into the city?

10. How do Lan, Rand, and Nynaeve deal with some assassins on Blue Carp Street?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Jordan treats the world of dreams as an actual world where what happens there can affect people when not in the dream world; for example, if one is killed in the dream world, they are dead in "real life."

Discuss one of the following:

1. Describe and analyze the wolf dream and what Perrin does in it.

2. Describe and analyze Tel'Aran'Rhiod (the dream world) and how it impacts the plot in "Winter's Heart". Why do you think Jordan includes the wolf dream and Tel'Aran'Rhiod in his Wheel of Time series?

Essay Topic 2

Whenever reading a science fiction or fantasy novel, one must become familiar with new terminology that explains concepts or ideas that are not a part of the "real" world. In the case of "Winter's Heart", much of the setting may seem familiar to the reader (i.e. there are woods, mountains, rivers, oceans, etc.), though there are new ideas and terms to learn.

Discuss the following:

1. Find five terms that are a part of the world of "Winter's Heart" that occur in the "real" world but are used differently in "Winter's Heart".

2. Define the words as used in in "Winter's Heart"'s world and compare those five words as to how they are currently used in the American English language.

3. There are ways of learning about a new world or time when reading a science fiction or fantasy novel. Discuss the ways you were able to understand the world of "Winter's Heart". Did you have to look up any words? What does it mean to learn a word through its context? Do you have to do that in "Winter's Heart"? What word(s)?

4. Were there any words you never really understood from "Winter's Heart"? Which ones?

Essay Topic 3

Whom do you think Rand trusts in this book and is his trust well founded? Whom does he mistrust and why? Give specific examples. Rand supports Mazrim Taim in opening a school for men who can channel.

Discuss one of the following:

1. Thoroughly describe and analyze the school for men who can channel and discuss if you think the school is necessary for Rand's goals. Is it wise to train men who can channel knowing that saidin is tainted and many if not all, men go insane after regularly using the One Power. Take a stance and defend it with examples.

2. How does Rand's foresight in granting amnesty to men who can channel and setting up the school influence the action in "Winter's Heart"? How do Rand and other major characters use men who can channel in "Winter's Heart"?

3. What do you think will be the impact of Rand cleansing saidin at the end of "Winter's Heart" in forthcoming books in the series?

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