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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. Who are the girls told not to bother at the academy?
(a) No one.
(b) Knut.
(c) The priest.
(d) The stone cutters.

2. What word makes Miri exchange the book she is reading for another book?
(a) Hostility.
(b) Circumnavigate.
(c) Endeavor.
(d) Commerce.

3. What does Miri learn about one block of linder?
(a) It can only be carved by someone with quarry-speech abilities.
(b) It has strong healing properties.
(c) It is the densest matter in the land.
(d) It is worth one gold coin.

4. How does Britta manage to get out of working at the quarry?
(a) She bribes the administrator.
(b) She smashed her finger.
(c) She wants to work at the quarry.
(d) She acted deaf.

5. Who is the only one able to read out loud one day in the classroom?
(a) Britta.
(b) Miri.
(c) No one.
(d) Greti.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the village's only natural resource?

2. Why does Miri hide the book she is reading?

3. For what will the girls be punished at the academy?

4. What subject can Miri not seem to master?

5. What does Miri remember from long ago?

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