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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 Talia have Elspeth do?
(a) Settle in the grove while Talia goes to talk with Queen Selenay.
(b) Ride Sedarth right away.
(c) Apologize to Skif.
(d) Defend herself against the masked man.

2. Who hires assassins to kill King Sendar?
(a) Karse.
(b) A rogue Companion.
(c) Velgarth.
(d) A rogue Herald.

3. About what does Talia chide Kris?
(a) For putting his bedroll outside to give her privacy.
(b) For taking so much time to bathe.
(c) For cleaning her tack instead of letting her do it.
(d) For thinking of her as a woman rather than a Herald.

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

5. What does Selenay do to ensure holder children are allowed to leave the Hold?
(a) Sends Heralds who are empaths to sense unhappy children.
(b) Makes a decree.
(c) Has Heralds interview all children in Holds when they are about 10.
(d) Nothing; it is out of her jurisdiction.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who chooses a new Queen's Own?

2. Why is it important for a Herald to be present in the Northern Borders?

3. Why are the Council meetings upsetting to Talia?

4. About what is Elspeth depressed?

5. What does Talia have to memorize?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the teasing Talia receives about her possible romantic involvements.

2. What do Heralds do?

3. Why do the Council meetings disturb Talia?

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

5. What demonstrates the egalitarian nature of the Heralds?

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

7. What starts Kris and Talia's journey off a little roughly?

8. How does Talia adjudicate her first case?

9. What does Talia find on her door when she rises the next morning?

10. Describe the interaction between Kris and his uncle.

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