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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. How does Talia cheer up Elspeth?
(a) By giving Elspeth a new sword.
(b) By giving Elspeth a new fletch of arrows.
(c) By saying Elspeth can go on a week's journey with Talia.
(d) By saying Elspeth can ride Rolan.

2. Where does Talia find Kris?
(a) Conferring with Selenay.
(b) Packing his bags in his room.
(c) In the tack shed with Dirk.
(d) Helping Kyril pack his bags.

3. Why isn't Talia expected for duty the next morning?
(a) She is spending the night on watch.
(b) She is to prepare for leaving.
(c) No one will be rising early.
(d) She is spending the night studying.

4. Who is Talamir?
(a) The Rogue Herald who kills King Sendar.
(b) The assassin hired by Karse.
(c) The assassin hired by Velgarth.
(d) The Queen's own to Selaney.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What questions do Kris and Talia answer at the village where they sleep for the first night?

2. Who chooses a new Queen's Own?

3. What is the Queen or King's own?

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

5. Where is the formal investiture to take place?

Short Essay Questions

1. What occurs at the tack shed after the investiture?

2. What does Talia see when she wakes in the middle of the night?

3. What happens to humans during the Sorcerous Wars?

4. How does Talia try to appear during the ceremony and how does she try to help Elspeth?

5. What surprise awaits Talia later that day?

6. Which counselors seem to react negatively to Elspeth and Talia?

7. What concerns Talia about Elspeth?

8. What does Kyril teach Talia?

9. Where do Kris and Dirk take Talia after she checks Rolan's equipment?

10. What ceremony do the villagers want the Heralds to witness and how does it proceed?

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