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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What shames Talia about how she is treated by other students?
(a) That what they are saying might be true.
(b) That she does not understand all the references they make.
(c) That they do not say cruel things to other students.
(d) That they say things in front of students who had liked her.

2. To what does Talia look forward during Midwinter?
(a) Practicing archery.
(b) Going to parties.
(c) Riding.
(d) Reading.

3. What does Talia do as the wives' attention is diverted?
(a) Jumps to her death.
(b) Starts sobbing and everyone turns to her.
(c) Faints.
(d) Runs away from the meeting.

4. What does Sherrill leave for Talia?
(a) A warning about the princess.
(b) A warning about Skif.
(c) A warning about Rolan.
(d) Some things to discover about the Collegium on her own.

5. What are girls taught where Talia grows up?
(a) The same things as boys.
(b) Domestic duties.
(c) Swords and bows.
(d) Scribing and accounting.

6. What is another name for Heralds?
(a) Eyes of the Queen.
(b) Hands of the Queen.
(c) Arrows of Light.
(d) Arrows of the Queen.

7. What does Talia's father claim?
(a) That he is honored that his daughter is chosen as a Herald.
(b) That Talia's father will have to pay a breach of contract debt to the family of the man she was engaged to marry.
(c) That he has no daughter named Talia.
(d) That Rolan took his daughter illegally.

8. What shocks Talia about the women guards she encounters?
(a) That they serve in the military.
(b) That they treat her as an equal.
(c) That they seem to all know Rolan.
(d) That they seem surprised to find Talia on Rolan, but they do nothing.

9. What are the only things Talia can do?
(a) Sew and celestial navigation.
(b) Sew and cook.
(c) Cook and adjudication.
(d) Cook and scrub pots.

10. What does Talia learn at the village?
(a) That she and Rolan are to stay there until a Herald arrives.
(b) That she is to take Rolan back to the Collegium herself.
(c) That she is to leave Rolan in the village and return home.
(d) That she is to take Rolan to the Queen, a journal of a month or more.

11. What color are the eyes that are gazing at Talia?
(a) Yellow.
(b) Green.
(c) Sapphire.
(d) Gold.

12. What does Talia do at Companion's field?
(a) Try to see which horse will become her companion.
(b) Ride Rolan bareback.
(c) Reunite with Rolan.
(d) Learn how to care for a Herald's equipment.

13. How does Talia feel in the older woman's presence?
(a) Intimidated.
(b) Frightened.
(c) Comfortable.
(d) Nervous.

14. What does the Herald explain to Talia?
(a) That Rolan has a homing device in his brain.
(b) That she will receive the answers to her questions at the Collegium.
(c) That Rolan is in mourning.
(d) That Rolan needs her as much as she needs him.

15. What musical instrument does Talia hear one day?
(a) Lyre.
(b) Flute.
(c) Harp.
(d) Lute.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sounds automatically when a Herald is killed?

2. What does Talia decide to do with a horse she encounters?

3. What shocks Talia about what the wives tell her?

4. Where is the white horse going when he veers off the road?

5. What three groups does the Collegium train?

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