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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. What does Elspeth wonder about Talia?
(a) Why Talia continues to train with Alberich.
(b) Who Talia likes romantically.
(c) Why Talia is reluctant to go on her internship.
(d) Why Talia doesn't just change every one's mind by using her gift.

2. What protects the Northern Border from trouble?
(a) A wide, trecherous river.
(b) A series of forts.
(c) A sheer cliff that runs for miles along the border.
(d) The Forest of Sorrows.

3. Where is the formal investiture to take place?
(a) The palace ball room.
(b) The auditorium.
(c) The cathedral.
(d) The great hall.

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

5. What happens after the formal investiture is complete?
(a) The bards start playing dance music.
(b) The nobles hand out presents to the commoners.
(c) The bells in the city ring.
(d) Their is a magical show.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. About what is Elspeth depressed?

3. What happens to Elspeth?

4. What is the Hand of Fate?

5. Why are the Council meetings upsetting to Talia?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why are Talia and Kris being sent to the Northern border?

3. What does Kyril teach Talia?

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

5. Why is Talia not prepared to perform as a Herald, but what in her background helps her deal with Elspeth?

6. What does the reader learn about Talia's life as a child and what Queen Selenay does after hearing the same information?

7. Why do the Council meetings disturb Talia?

8. Who are two essential Heralds?

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

10. What is the worse mistake that the Queen's Own, Talamir, makes?

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