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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 do Kris and Talia need to be careful to do?
(a) Write in their journal every night.
(b) Give the appearance of respectibility.
(c) Make the people believe in their impartiality.
(d) Send pigeons off regularly.

2. How does Kris and Dirk's partnership work?
(a) Kris sees and Dirk fetches.
(b) Kris is the talker and Dirk is the muscle.
(c) Dirk sees and Kris fetches.
(d) Dirk is the talker and Kris is the muscle.

3. From where is the new Queen's own?
(a) The Queen's servant staff.
(b) The merchant class of the city.
(c) A puritanical border group.
(d) One of the scholars in the university library.

4. What does Kyril make Talia practice for several hours?
(a) The patterns of what he just taught her.
(b) Bowing the proper degrees for various nobles.
(c) Packing her bags and saddling Rolan, all in under two minutes.
(d) Getting on and off Rolan without using her hands.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Selenay do after dinner?

2. What are Companions?

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

4. Why are Talia's concerns about Lord Orthallan vague?

5. What wars occurred long ago in Velgarth?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Alberich have Talia continue to train with Elspeth?

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

4. How does Talia's gift cause a little tension between Talia and Kris?

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 do Heralds do?

8. What news does Talia get that afternoon and who delivers the news?

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

10. What happens to humans during the Sorcerous Wars?

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