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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 does Talia trust the horse to do?
(a) Teach her to ride well.
(b) Take her to its owners.
(c) Guard her while she sleeps.
(d) Get her a safe distance from the Hold.

2. What sounds automatically when a Herald is killed?
(a) The Death Bell.
(b) The Death Thunder.
(c) Nothing.
(d) The Wind Gong.

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

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

5. What does Talia do as the wives' attention is diverted?
(a) Jumps to her death.
(b) Runs away from the meeting.
(c) Starts sobbing and everyone turns to her.
(d) Faints.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Talia decide not to share with others about what is making her unhappy?

2. How does Talia think her Holding would welcome someone like her?

3. How does Talia clean her clothes at the river?

4. What does the guard call the white horse?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What concerns Alberich about Talia and how does Talia feel about her first lesson with him?

2. What is Elcarth's position in the palace, what does he notice about Talia's personality and her knowledge?

3. Who is the woman who came into Talia's room and what does Talia find out from her?

4. What is Talia's duty for her first day of classes and what does she learn there?

5. What happens to Talia that gets her out of her holding?

6. Who does Talia meet during the break and what do they do together?

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

8. What continues unabated and what does Talia do?

9. What does Talia learn about the Companions?

10. What fantasy does Talia have after she escapes from the meeting with her father's wives?

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