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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Hulda instructed to do by a nobleman?
(a) To continue frightening Elspeth.
(b) To try to put poison in Talia's food.
(c) To try to make Elspeth hate her mother.
(d) To try to put poison in Selenay's drink.

2. Who is questioning Skif?
(a) Selenay and Orthallen.
(b) Rolan.
(c) The Dean.
(d) Teren.

3. How many Heralds die in the first year Talia is at the Collegium?
(a) 8.
(b) 4.
(c) 1.
(d) 2.

4. Who uses Elspeth as an example of a good student?
(a) Orthallen.
(b) Teren.
(c) Alberich.
(d) Selenay.

5. For whom does the death bell toll?
(a) Elspeth.
(b) Keren.
(c) Jadus.
(d) Rolan.

6. What is one thing that helps improve Elspeth's attitude toward companions?
(a) She assists in the birth of a new companion.
(b) She reads children's stories about companions who have saved children.
(c) She rides Rolan every day.
(d) Talia does a mental cleansing on Elspeth.

7. Who does Talia think is being drugged?
(a) Rolan.
(b) Hulda.
(c) Selenay.
(d) Melidy.

8. What does Talia convince Skif to do?
(a) Steal the immigration records from the Collegium.
(b) Steal a lock of Hulda's hair for a spell.
(c) Travel to Hulda's home to find out about her.
(d) Steal a lock of Hulda's hair for analysis.

9. How accurate is Rolan at seeing "through" Talia's eyes?
(a) 75 percent.
(b) 50 percent.
(c) 100 percent.
(d) 25 percent.

10. What was not hung when King Valdemar dies?
(a) His sword.
(b) His shield.
(c) His coat of arms.
(d) A rope and clapper in the bell-tower.

11. How does Talia fight back?
(a) She calls for Rolan.
(b) She fights the way her weaponmaster teachers her.
(c) She throws one of them in the river.
(d) She uses her sword.

12. What happens if Neave does not control his gift?
(a) He becomes catatonic.
(b) Others have nightmares.
(c) He gets extremely ill.
(d) He projects discord.

13. What happens when the students return from Midwinter Festival?
(a) Some of them start harrassing Talia again.
(b) The Queen announces she is abdicating in favor of her daughter.
(c) Talia falls off Rolan and breaks an arm.
(d) A plague seeps through the town.

14. Why does Talia rush to Keren?
(a) To help her with the death of Ylsa.
(b) To give Keren a message from Ylsa.
(c) To announce what Talia just learned.
(d) To ask Keren to go help Ylsa at the crofter's home.

15. What is odd about what happens when a Herald dies?
(a) The companion turns black for one year.
(b) The bell rings even though it has no rope or clapper.
(c) The companion is invisible for one year.
(d) Nothing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is unique about Talia and Rolan's connection?

2. How long has Talia been at the Collegium at the beginning of Chapter 11?

3. What does the Dean teach Talia?

4. How can Heralds increase their Gift?

5. Who interferes with Talia working with Elspeth?

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