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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Seven and Chapter Eight.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Miri remember from long ago?
(a) Her mother screaming like that.
(b) Her uncle visiting and her father yelling then, too.
(c) A fox family she saw in a cave.
(d) A bandit attack.

2. Who cannot get the image of a rat in the closet out of her mind?
(a) Gerti.
(b) Miri.
(c) Britta.
(d) Olana.

3. What have priests determined about Mount Eskel?
(a) The prince's bride will come from there.
(b) It is the site of the first landing of their peoples.
(c) It is in danger from a possible volcanic eruption.
(d) That it is in danger of a plague.

4. Who embarrasses Miri?
(a) Her pa.
(b) One of the soldiers.
(c) Marda.
(d) Peder.

5. What is quarry-speech?
(a) The language the priest uses in his chanting in the temple.
(b) The way the lowlanders are said to talk.
(c) A way of communicating in the noisy mine environment.
(d) The way the kids talk to each other so their parents won't understand.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Miri and Marda decide not to do?

2. What does Olana never let the girls forget?

3. Who is Mardo?

4. In what does Miri take comfort?

5. What is Doter good at doing?

(see the answer key)

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