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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 surprises Talia at the one of the shelters?
(a) That there are two young boys on white horses.
(b) Finding a female guard.
(c) That Rolan knows so much about her already.
(d) That Rolan seems to know the male guard at the next shelter.

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

3. When does Talia feel most peaceful?
(a) When she is with Rolan.
(b) When she is alone.
(c) When she is in the library.
(d) When she falls asleep at night.

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

5. Who chooses a companion's rider?
(a) The companion's mother.
(b) The companion.
(c) The herald.
(d) The queen.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Talia sleep on the first night on the road?

2. What does Talia do when she and the horse stop?

3. Who does Talia meet in a village by a hut?

4. To what does Talia revert?

5. What is one thing Talia learns about companions?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Talia think about her future as she is bathing?

2. What does Talia learn about the Companions?

3. What is Talia's social life like in her holding?

4. 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?

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

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

7. Why does Elcarth have to leave Talia's tour?

8. What does Sherrill take Talia to get?

9. What do some of the female students talk to Talia about in the bath area and what does Talia hope as she falls asleep?

10. Why do most of the students go home, and why doesn't Talia do the same?

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