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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What scares Jakkin and makes him climb down?
(a) A large owl divebombs Jakkin.
(b) A snake in the tree that bites Jakkin.
(c) The hiss of a drakk.
(d) A dragon bellowing.

2. Why does Likkarn hit Jakkin?
(a) Because Jakkin's father is the one responsbile for Likkaarn being a bonder.
(b) Because Jakkin does everything well and quickly.
(c) Because Jakkin can read.
(d) Because Jakkin's mother turned down Likkarn's marriage proposal.

3. What is Jakkin instructed to do once on the ground?
(a) Stab the drakk that the hunters shot with arrows.
(b) Get ready to help subdue the dragon that is bellowing.
(c) Drink the antidote to the snake poison.
(d) Drink the antidote to the drakk poison.

4. What does Jakkin plan to do the next evening?
(a) Mate the alpha female.
(b) Free two of his slaves.
(c) Attack a neighboring dragon farm.
(d) Steal an egg.

5. About what do the older bonders complain?
(a) Likkarn's demotion.
(b) The lack of water.
(c) The poor hatching.
(d) The dust.

6. What does Jakkin receive after the drakk hunt?
(a) A promotion.
(b) Two of the drakk's teeth.
(c) A full share of the bounty.
(d) The drakk's tail.

7. What is Slakk caught doing?
(a) Talking to a free agent female.
(b) Retrieving the brush from the showers.
(c) Sneaking extra rations.
(d) Trying to ride a dragon.

8. What will happen to any imperfect hatchling?
(a) It will be taken for food for the bonders.
(b) The female dragon will kill it.
(c) It will be nursed to see if it will become healthy.
(d) The senior bondman will kill it.

9. Where does Jakkin lead Blood Brother?
(a) To the training field.
(b) To the lake.
(c) To the mud baths.
(d) To a new stall.

10. Who is Likkarn?
(a) An older bonder in charge of the boy bonders.
(b) A dragonrider.
(c) A dragon doctor.
(d) A free man who helps in the pottery sheds.

11. What do Jakkin's friends joke about as they come in that afternoon?
(a) Jakkin sleeping.
(b) Errikkin's orders to clean the aviary.
(c) Jakkin's new status as clerk.
(d) Likkarn's demotion.

12. What words do good trainers use when addressing dragons?
(a) Thou and thee.
(b) They have no special words when talking to the dragons.
(c) Pretty and Handsome.
(d) Dragon language.

13. To what is the desolate, ex-prison planet discussed in the Introduction most conducive?
(a) To diamond mining.
(b) To the raising of dragons.
(c) To metals mining.
(d) To mineral mining.

14. What is Austar IV?
(a) The name of the main protagonist.
(b) The planet discussed in the Introduction.
(c) The name of the moon outside the largest planet in the Vindyne system.
(d) The name of a hyperlight space cargo carrier.

15. What does Jakkin's mother do after his father dies?
(a) Sell them into slavery.
(b) Kill herself.
(c) Marry an unsavory man.
(d) Leave Jakkin with relatives and go to find her family.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what fight did Likkarn bet all his money?

2. How many hatchlings does Heat O' Mine have?

3. Who are bonders?

4. Who is Kkarina?

5. Where did Kkarina work to earn money to buy her freedom?

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