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cheezluva pointed me in the direction of this page:

http://webcontent.harpercollins.com/text/teachers_guides/pdf/006083577X.pdf

Most of the questions seem designed to get the reader to understand the more obscure parts of the book, which means we've already discussed a lot of it. But I thought these were interesting:

8. Speaking with the traitor Relius, Eugenides says,“You must hate [Attolia] now.” Relius replies,“If I were [imprisoned] for fifty years . . . and she released me, I would crawl, if that was all I could do, to her feet to serve her” (p. 247). What has Attolia done to command and retain this kind of loyalty?

I remember a bit in The Queen of Attolia where Irene points out that she hires mercenaries and has no family as Eddis does for her army. Is it purely money that keeps people loyal to Irene?