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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About what does Talia worry?
(a) That her father will find her there.
(b) That she has made a huge mistake.
(c) That she will not know how to get home again.
(d) That she will never see Rolan again.

2. What instructor is friendly and enthusiastic?
(a) Teren.
(b) Selaney.
(c) Alberich.
(d) Roy.

3. What does Talia decide not to share with anyone?
(a) That she is being harrassed.
(b) What her father wrote in his note.
(c) That she has to go home.
(d) That she was engaged to be married.

4. What three groups does the Collegium train?
(a) Heralds, Grooms and Bards.
(b) Heralds, Healers, Herbalists.
(c) Bards, Healers, and Swordsmen.
(d) Heralds, Healers, Bards.

5. What special duties does Talia study?
(a) Those of the Monarch's or Queen's Own.
(b) Caring for Elspeth.
(c) Mind melding.
(d) Penmanship.

6. What shocks Talia about what the wives tell her?
(a) That she is to enter the priestess vocation.
(b) That she is to leave the community and travel to the queen's city.
(c) That she is to choose a husband.
(d) That she is to take over as head ostler.

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

8. What confuses Talia?
(a) How she happened to be riding Rolan to the Collegium.
(b) Why her father has not sent men after her.
(c) What direction they are riding.
(d) Why Rolan seems to be speaking to her mind.

9. Where does Talia sleep on the first night on the road?
(a) Snuggled up next to the horse.
(b) On the ground in open air.
(c) In a small shed.
(d) In a cave.

10. What makes Talia feel as though she can do nothing right?
(a) Weapons training.
(b) Geography classes.
(c) History classes.
(d) Riding classes.

11. What does Talia complete in the next few days?
(a) Her orientation training.
(b) A painting of Rolan.
(c) A map of her area of the country.
(d) Her journal about her life in the Holding.

12. How are Heralds chosen?
(a) By the companions.
(b) By lottery.
(c) By a Heraldy board.
(d) By the Queen.

13. What mystifies Talia's instructors?
(a) What is causing Talia's shyness.
(b) How Talia learns so quickly.
(c) Why Talia does not stand up for herself.
(d) Why Talia is so confident one-on-one with the instructors but not when other students are around.

14. What are the students assigned?
(a) A personal trainer.
(b) A specific area of expertise.
(c) A mentor.
(d) Various chores.

15. What does Elcarth notice about Talia?
(a) Her vivacity.
(b) Her curiosity.
(c) Her shyness.
(d) Her lack of social manners.

Short Answer Questions

1. What particular lack of knowledge on Talia's part appalls Elcarth?

2. How does Teren expect Talia to respond to what he says about her father?

3. What is one thing Talia learns about companions?

4. What color are the eyes that are gazing at Talia?

5. What surprises Talia at the one of the shelters?

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