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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 did Master Jerint ask Menolly to do?

2. Who is the new queen's weyrwoman?

3. How does Beauty smell?

4. What smell didn't fill the air when Menolly got up?

5. What did Menolly consider to get Dunca to leave her alone?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Menolly find little to criticize in the fire lizards' singing?

2. How did Menolly imagine life in the Harper Hall?

3. Why were the other girls mad at Menolly?

4. Why couldn't Menolly run away from the throng of people?

5. Why was everyone shocked that Menolly had Impressed nine fire lizards?

6. How does Menolly present herself as being possessed of quiet dignity?

7. What was the positive outcome to Pona's vicious attack on Menolly behind her back?

8. Why did Menolly wish that she could go between?

9. What did Menolly observe about the way people ate at the dining hall?

10. In what way was Dunca's reaction to Menolly feeding her fire lizards hypocritical?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How did Robinton react to the hatching of his fire lizard? What did he learn from it, and how could it pose as a great boon to him? How is this a whole new world for him, and yet how can it serve him within the confines of Masterharper?

Essay Topic 2

How did Menolly view life in a Harper Hall, and how was it in actuality, different? How is this an open expression by the author of Menolly's innocence? How is her view of the Harper hall in actuality, and what does this represent? In what way is Menolly's outlook still very innocent?

Essay Topic 3

Menolly uses music not as a hobby but a way of life. How is it essential to her being? How would she fare without the influence of music in her life? What might have happened to her if she would have remained at the Half Circle Hold?

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