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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Fifteen and Chapter Sixteen.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Pa try to prevent soldiers from doing?
(a) Taking Miri.
(b) Taking more of their grain than necessary for their horses.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Talking rough in front of his daughters.

2. What does Olana claim about the cottage in a picture she shows the girls?
(a) That the painting was done by the prince.
(b) It is where Olana was born.
(c) It is where the last princess was born.
(d) The successful girl's family will receive the cottage.

3. What does Miri look forward to in the opening of Chapter 9?
(a) Spring holiday.
(b) Summer holiday.
(c) Fall holiday.
(d) Solstice holiday.

4. Why do the girls blame Miri that they cannot go home?
(a) Because Miri is too friendly to Britta.
(b) Because she speaks out against the rules and the girls are forbidden to go home.
(c) Because Miri is so independent.
(d) Because her family is wealthier than the other villagers.

5. Where is the academy?
(a) Near the Dark Forest.
(b) In the lowlands.
(c) On the top of Mount Eskel.
(d) In the stone minister's house.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Miri receive for her fifteenth birthday?

2. What do the girls discuss on their way back to the academy?

3. Who cannot get the image of a rat in the closet out of her mind?

4. What does Miri realize about quarry-speech?

5. Why does Olana put Gerti in the closet?

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