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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. Why is Keldar angry?
(a) Because Talia is different.
(b) Because her husband just took another wife.
(c) Because Keldar's oldest son is passed over for knighthood.
(d) Because Talia's brother refuses to go to war.

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

3. How is Talia treated by people in the villages she passes?
(a) Hostile.
(b) Suspiciously.
(c) Indifferent.
(d) Friendly and welcoming.

4. Who is Sherrill?
(a) The princess' nanny.
(b) A Herald whose companion is Tibideau.
(c) A student who just started that day also.
(d) A student who is assigned to escort Talia around the school.

5. How long do Talia and Rolan travel by the end of the second chapter?
(a) 6 days.
(b) 3 days.
(c) 10 days.
(d) 30 days.

Short Answer Questions

1. What surprises Talia at the one of the shelters?

2. Who is Skif?

3. What impresses Talia about the dining room?

4. What does Talia hope for when she returns the horse?

5. What incidences increase?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What continues unabated and what does Talia do?

3. What does Sherrill take Talia to get?

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

5. 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?

6. What are Heralds and Companions?

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

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

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

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

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