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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Kris?
(a) A handsome Herald man Talia meets in the training arena.
(b) A handsome Herald man Talia meets in the library.
(c) A Herald assigned to train Talia in sword fighting.
(d) A companion who is close to Rolan.

2. Who is Skif?
(a) The cook with whom Talia works.
(b) One of the Reds children.
(c) One of the Blues children.
(d) A Herald who was a thief and a beggar before being chosen.

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

4. How does Talia clean her clothes at the river?
(a) Scrubbing them on tree bark.
(b) Soaproot.
(c) Dipping them in the water.
(d) Boiling them over the fire in a pot.

5. Who is playing the instrument?
(a) Selaney.
(b) Jadus.
(c) Skif.
(d) Elspeth.

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

7. Who is delighted to see Rolan at the gate?
(a) Roland's rider.
(b) A Herald.
(c) The gatekeeper.
(d) The captain of the guard.

8. Who is the older woman who enters Talia's room?
(a) The Captain of the Heralds.
(b) The King's soon-to-be wife.
(c) The Herald's training commander.
(d) The Queen.

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

10. What does Talia name the horse?
(a) Rolan.
(b) Freedon.
(c) Ronald.
(d) Wilbur.

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

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

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

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

15. What is a Holding?
(a) The jewels and money of a noble.
(b) The hand a card dealer keeps.
(c) A community of people, on the outer edge of the Kingdom.
(d) The crown's possessions.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Keren?

2. About what does Talia worry?

3. Who is Talamir?

4. What does the Herald tell Talia?

5. When does Talia feel most peaceful?

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