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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what does Miri take comfort?
(a) Thinking about the princess gown.
(b) That Katar is unable to read.
(c) That the academy is only a couple weeks long.
(d) That the academy is so close to her home.

2. What do Miri and Marda decide not to do?
(a) Trade with Enrik again.
(b) Go with Pa to the festival.
(c) Work the mines.
(d) Go to the academy.

3. What is Miri not wanting to do in order to get her family a house?
(a) Marry the prince.
(b) Pretending to be deaf to the quarry speech.
(c) Never work in the linder mines.
(d) Give up a possibility of being the academy princess.

4. Who does Miri overhear speaking about her in the evening?
(a) Britta and Liana.
(b) Bena, Liana and Katar.
(c) Bena, Katar and Britta.
(d) Katar and Britta.

5. Why does Miri wonder about Britta's motives?
(a) Britta is always late.
(b) Britta does not keep her cubicle neat.
(c) Britta will not speak to the other girls.
(d) Britta fails to read letters.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Mardo?

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

3. What does Peder say about quarry work?

4. What does Pa try to prevent soldiers from doing?

5. What does Pa say about linder?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Miri decide to do one day when the other girls go outside?

2. Why is Miri sent to the closet and what is her experience there like?

3. Why did Miri feel isolated from other girls her age and how is being at the academy changing that?

4. How does Miri use Diplomacy when they return to the academy and what is Olana's response?

5. Describe the girls' first day at the academy.

6. What conversation does Miri remember between her and Peder about linder?

7. What is Miri's reaction to quarry speech?

8. What does Miri hear some other girls discussing about her, and what does Miri think?

9. How does Miri discover that Britta cannot hear quarry speech?

10. Why does Olana punish Miri?

(see the answer keys)

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