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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Kyril think will work to Talia's advantage?
(a) Talia's size.
(b) Talia's reputation.
(c) Talia's connections with the Queen.
(d) Talia's empathic abilities.

2. What is one of Talia's greatest accomplishments to date?
(a) Learning to ride a Companion.
(b) Learning to read and write.
(c) Straightening out Elsbeth.
(d) Saving the Queen's life.

3. What is Talia's reputation among the other Heralds?
(a) As a rigid strict disciplinarian.
(b) As being sweet and simple.
(c) As a shirker.
(d) As one who lets others make her decisions.

4. What does Talamir decide to do with Elspeth?
(a) Send her to a remote fosterage.
(b) Declare her unfit to rule Valdemar.
(c) Take her to a remote area and teach her for a couple years.
(d) Poison her.

5. Why are Talia's concerns about Lord Orthallan vague?
(a) He has the ability to block his mind.
(b) She is only reading him empathically and has no concrete facts.
(c) He is also an empath and can send out false emotions.
(d) She just met him the day of Selenay's announcement.

6. What does Dirk have trouble sorting out?
(a) His feelings for Talia.
(b) Who is supposed to bow to whom.
(c) Why the nobles are lined up in a strange configuration.
(d) Who goes where in the processional.

7. What does Talia have to memorize?
(a) All the anatomical parts of a horse.
(b) The Queen's right of rule document.
(c) Complex oaths and bindings.
(d) Her investiture poem that she wrote.

8. Why does Talia decide to dine at Court?
(a) She wants to talk with the Seneschal.
(b) Selenay will probably formally announce Elspeth as heir.
(c) Selenay has asked her to stay and eat.
(d) She likes the roast duck the cook is making.

9. What news do Keren and Sherrill give Talia?
(a) She has received the Badge of the Sword award.
(b) Talia's sister has been chosen as a healer in training.
(c) She has been voted into full Herald status.
(d) Talia's father is there to reconcile with her.

10. What does Talia vehemently deny?
(a) That she was unhappy in her childhood.
(b) That she was upset about doing an internship with Kris.
(c) That she is pregnant.
(d) Attempting to influence Elspeth or the Council.

11. About what does Dirk tease Talia?
(a) That Kris will seduce Talia.
(b) That her upcoming internship will be a vacation compared to the work she's been doing here.
(c) That the Queen is old enough to be Talia's mother.
(d) That Elspeth is like a younger Talia.

12. What is one thing Talia does at court each day?
(a) Debate rules of protocol.
(b) Confer with Lord Caris.
(c) Confer with the Seneschal.
(d) Teach Elspeth rules of succession.

13. At what age do females in the Holderkin take a vow of chastity or marry?
(a) 21.
(b) 15.
(c) 13.
(d) 18.

14. What does Talia inspect?
(a) Rolan's equipment.
(b) Elspeth's new sword routine.
(c) Dirk's new sword.
(d) Kris' owl he is whittling.

15. Who must always be a Herald?
(a) No one.
(b) One child of an existing Herald.
(c) The Chamberlain.
(d) The Monarch.

Short Answer Questions

1. What insures that there is always at least one person the Monarch can trust?

2. What wars occurred long ago in Velgarth?

3. What does Alberich do when he beats Talia at fighting practice?

4. Who does Kris consult about Talia?

5. What is happening in the tack shed of the companion's field?

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