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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the next female guard like?
(a) She is blind.
(b) She is surly.
(c) She is almsot as big as a giant.
(d) She has been wounded in battle.

2. Who is Sherrill?
(a) A student who is assigned to escort Talia around the school.
(b) The princess' nanny.
(c) A Herald whose companion is Tibideau.
(d) A student who just started that day also.

3. Whose eyes are gazing at Talia?
(a) A young boy.
(b) A horse.
(c) A dog.
(d) A donkey.

4. What will be one of Talia's jobs as the Queen's Own?
(a) Interviewing those who want to be Heralds.
(b) Taming the spoiled princess.
(c) Caring for the Queen's companion.
(d) Overseeing the tax collectioins.

5. How does Talia think her Holding would welcome someone like her?
(a) She tries not to make comparisons.
(b) They would beat and jail her.
(c) They would hope she would stay and become part of their clan.
(d) The same as the villages she is riding through.

6. What incidences increase?
(a) Talia's times when she is able to read the Queen's mind.
(b) Talia's abillity to hear specific thoughts from Rolan.
(c) The bullying of some towards Talia.
(d) Talia's ability to understand complex ideas.

7. What is one thing that is a constant threat to Heralds?
(a) Weather.
(b) Madness.
(c) Overusing magic.
(d) Dark Servants.

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

9. How is Talia treated by people in the villages she passes?
(a) Suspiciously.
(b) Hostile.
(c) Indifferent.
(d) Friendly and welcoming.

10. Why won't Talia go back to the Hold?
(a) She would not be allowed to leave again.
(b) She would be given an awful husband in punishment.
(c) She would be imprisoned.
(d) No one would believe her story.

11. What amazes Talia about the horse she encounters?
(a) It kneels down for her to mount.
(b) It knows where it's going.
(c) It is solid black.
(d) It seems to read her mind.

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

13. Who is Keren?
(a) The navigation instructor.
(b) The riding instructor.
(c) The hurdles instructor.
(d) The archery instructor.

14. What does the young girl who enters Talia's room claim?
(a) That she is Talia's half sister.
(b) That she is Rolan's rider.
(c) That she is the heir to the throne.
(d) That the room in which Talia is waiting is the young girl's room.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Talia complete in the next few days?

2. What is Talia told as she gazes into the eyes?

3. What does Talia decide not to share with anyone?

4. What awes Talia?

5. Who is the older woman who enters Talia's room?

(see the answer keys)

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