Reading Check questions are designed for in-class review on key plot points or for quick verbal or written assessments. Multiple Choice and Short Answer Quizzes create ideal summative assessments, and collectively function to convey a sense of the work’s tone and themes.

Chapters 1-5

Reading Check

1. At the orphanage, what item does Mrs. Turbeldy chastise Sage for stealing?

2. What does Latamer keep doing that shows Sage and the other boys that he is sickly?

Multiple Choice

1. When Latamer tells Conner that he is not physically well enough to carry on with the mission, how does Conner respond?

A) Conner provides Latamer with a horse and tells him to find his own way home.

B) Conner angrily tells Latamer that he must join the mission.

C) Conner orders Cregan to shoot Latamer dead with an arrow.

D) Conner turns to a nearby healer, who will make Latamer well.

2. In describing the mission for the boys, Conner says that he needs one of them to conduct “the greatest ______ ever perpetrated within the country of Carthya.”

A) fraud

B) heist

C) jamboree

D) robbery

Short-Answer Response

Answer the following question in a complete sentence or sentences. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.

Why does Conner quiz the boys about their knowledge of Carthyan lore at the end of Chapter 5? What does this foreshadow?