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

2. What special duties does Talia study?
(a) Mind melding.
(b) Penmanship.
(c) Those of the Monarch's or Queen's Own.
(d) Caring for Elspeth.

3. Who is Alberich?
(a) The head ostler.
(b) The gardener.
(c) The head cook.
(d) The weaponsmaster.

4. About what does Talia worry?
(a) That she will never see Rolan again.
(b) That her father will find her there.
(c) That she has made a huge mistake.
(d) That she will not know how to get home again.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What awes Talia?

2. What is a Holding?

3. What does Talia do at Companion's field?

4. What are the Blues?

5. How does Talia feel in the older woman's presence?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why is Talia called into a meeting with her father's wives?

4. Where does Talia go after her second weapons class and how does she do with the class?

5. What does the older woman who came into Talia's room do and say and what does Talia tell the woman?

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

7. What are Heralds and Companions?

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

9. What happens to Talia as she is walking back from archery practice and what does she do about it?

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

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