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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is in the package Dirk sends Talia?
(a) A book about life bonds.
(b) Love poems.
(c) Music transcripts.
(d) A book about empathic Heralds.

2. What does Talia worry about concerning her gift and Kris?
(a) That Kris is still afraid of Talia's gifts.
(b) That Kris will report back to his uncle in a negative light.
(c) That Kris will want Talia to use her gifts to influence Dirk.
(d) That she may have unintentionally used her gift to influence Kris' feelings about her..

3. What is wrong with the villagers?
(a) Alder plague.
(b) Mosquito fever.
(c) Berryman plague.
(d) Snow fever.

4. Why are Kris and Talia commanded to leave the village that is full of ill people?
(a) So they do not contract the illness also.
(b) So they can ride for help.
(c) They have finished their work.
(d) So they can go gather herbs on a mountainside several days journey away.

5. How long do they think they might be snowed in?
(a) Several days.
(b) One day.
(c) A week.
(d) A month.

6. How does Skif say Dirk is acting as far as Talia is concerned?
(a) Indifferent.
(b) Jealous.
(c) Like a man with a lifebond.
(d) Uninterested.

7. What happens when Rolan faces the forest in challenge?
(a) There is a feeling of surprise emanating from somewhere in the forest.
(b) A tree topples towards them.
(c) A huge, unknown creature charges them.
(d) The Heralds and Companions hear a nerve-shattering bellow, then nothing.

8. What does Kris wish to control?
(a) Whether Talia and Dirk become involved.
(b) How long Talia is out on internship.
(c) Portraying any doubt about Talia's gift.
(d) Nothing.

9. About what does Kris worry concerning him and Talia?
(a) That Talia will expect marriage.
(b) That Talia will no longer be interested in Dirk.
(c) That Talia will become pregnant.
(d) That he will become too attached to Talia.

10. What do Kris and Talia think their dreams are saying?
(a) That there are dangerous magical creatures in the woods.
(b) To leave the Waystation as soon as possible.
(c) That they need to set up a defensive perimeter.
(d) To move their supplies into the Waystation.

11. Why does Talia continually try to exhaust herself?
(a) So she can fall into bed and sleep immediately rather than being sexually involved with Kris.
(b) Because she is proving her worth to Kris.
(c) Because she can control her gift better when tired.
(d) Because there is so much to do to survive.

12. What does Kris suggest they do to alert anyone passing by on the road?
(a) He camp out by the road.
(b) Nothing since they don't want to alert brigands.
(c) Plow their way from the road to the waystation.
(d) Place signals.

13. What will they do for the time they are snowed in?
(a) Practice their mediation skills.
(b) Practice sword fighting.
(c) Create a new code for the Heralds.
(d) Practice Talia's control.

14. Why does Talia have a scar on her hand?
(a) She cut herself intentionally when she was once upset as a child.
(b) Punishment as a child for refusing to drown some kittens.
(c) She slipped with a kitchen knife once.
(d) She was bitten by a dog when she was young.

15. What surprises Kris about Talia?
(a) That she is pretty tough.
(b) That she has not been with a man before.
(c) That she likes him.
(d) That she is so kind.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Lord Orthallen try to do about Talia's internship?

2. What does Talia learn from one of the restless chirras?

3. What does one tree do in the windstorm?

4. What is Kris pursuing in a dream?

5. Of what do an older couple accuse their sewing maid?

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