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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Miri continue practicing reading?
(a) The library.
(b) In a small cave she finds.
(c) In a tree she climbs.
(d) The bedchamber.

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

3. What will Miri's Pa not let her do?
(a) Leave before her aunt and uncle arrive.
(b) Bake for her brother.
(c) Go to the Linder mines.
(d) Take her sister with her.

4. What do the girls discuss on their way back to the academy?
(a) Strategy.
(b) The village boys.
(c) Buying a thank-present for Olana.
(d) Who will be chosen to be the prince's bride.

5. Why does Katar step in at the last minute?
(a) Self interest.
(b) To impress one of the village boys who walked to the academy with the girls.
(c) She feels sorry for Olana.
(d) She feels sorry for Miri.

6. When will the prince choose his bride?
(a) In one year.
(b) When he becomes king.
(c) He does not get to choose; the priests do.
(d) His father chooses the bride.

7. With what does Miri experiment as she thinks about what Peder says mining linder is like?
(a) Reading backwards.
(b) Quarry-speech.
(c) Feeling the vibrations in the stone at the academy.
(d) Singing her reading lessons.

8. How long has Miri been friends with Peder Doterson?
(a) Two or so years.
(b) A year.
(c) A few days.
(d) Since childhood.

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

10. For what is Marda too old?
(a) To be screaming in excitement.
(b) To apprentice to the local potter.
(c) To be considered for the prince's bride.
(d) To apprentice to the local weaver.

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

12. What does Olana offer as a prize?
(a) A pair of exquisite sandals.
(b) A necklace.
(c) A set of brushes and combs.
(d) A silver gown.

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

14. Why does Miri dismiss Britta?
(a) She is a lowlander.
(b) She acts coy.
(c) She is a know it all.
(d) She stutters.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What gift does Miri receive from Peder?

2. What does Miri think about as much as becoming a princess?

3. What do the girls think is a fitting punishment?

4. Why is Miri embarrassed at the celebration?

5. What impresses Olana about the girls?

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