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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What impresses Talia about the dining room?
(a) The very long tables and numbers they will serve.
(b) The neatness of the diners.
(c) The variety of foods available.
(d) The way the food is served by students who seem to enjoy doing so.

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

3. What does Talia do after learning what her father writes about her?
(a) Stoically goes to her next class.
(b) Goes and buries her face in Rolan's mane and cries.
(c) Goes and happily tells Rolan the news.
(d) Goes off by herself and cries hysterically.

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

5. Under what circumstances does Talia usually come to the attention of the community?
(a) When she has done something wrong.
(b) When a first son needs lessons in swordplay.
(c) When a first son needs lessons in archery.
(d) When someone needs a letter written.

Short Answer Questions

1. What awes Talia?

2. Where are the Herald's permanent quarters?

3. Who intimidates Talia?

4. To what does Talia look forward during Midwinter?

5. What is another name for Heralds?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where are Talia and the Companion traveling when she leaves her father's holding?

2. What continues unabated and what does Talia do?

3. What are the differences in the roles between men and women in Talia's holding and why might she be different than many women?

4. What are the first two tasks Talia does when she and the Companion stop at their first rest?

5. What does Sherrill take Talia to get?

6. What does the man in blue tell Talia she has to do when they talk to him at a small village?

7. What does Elcarth show Talia and what room most excites her?

8. What does Kris show Talia in the library and how long does she stay in the library?

9. What does a young girl do when she enters Talia's room and how does the woman who comes in respond to Talia's behavior?

10. Who are Blues and what do most of the Heralds think of them?

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