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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does tradition say about who mates with a queen?
(a) only bronze dragons do
(b) only green males mate with a queen
(c) queens mate only with blue dragons
(d) only male dragons bigger than a queen mate

2. What creature in the northern continent eats thread?
(a) blue billed thrushes
(b) red bellied spiders
(c) surface sliver fish
(d) sandworms

3. Why is there no cook at the Smithcrafthall?
(a) the cook is crafting
(b) the cook quit
(c) the cook was fired
(d) the cook died

4. What happens to Thread when a dragon goes between with some on it?
(a) nothing
(b) it freezes and shatters
(c) it returns to the red star
(d) it boils away

5. What does F'lar plan to demonstrate at the Telgar wedding?
(a) the distance writer
(b) how dragons can fly better in formation
(c) the telescope
(d) the way fire lizards go between

6. Where do Felessan and Jaxom go when they run off?
(a) to see Felessan's living quarters
(b) to find fire lizard klutches
(c) to see dragon eggs
(d) to get something to drink

7. Why can't Lessa get pregnant?
(a) going between aborts babies
(b) she is not married
(c) she is too old
(d) she has had Thread sickness too much

8. Who takes F'lar's side during the meeting?
(a) D'ram
(b) T'bor
(c) G'narish
(d) T'ron

9. What kind of help with communication does Robinton offer?
(a) traveling bards
(b) singers
(c) drums
(d) signal flares

10. What is Jaxom's position on Pern?
(a) a mason of the Souther Weyr
(b) a dragon rider of Ruatha
(c) an apprentice bard
(d) Lord of Ruatha Hold

11. Why is it difficult to catch a fire lizard?
(a) they can become invisible
(b) they can go between
(c) they are too fast
(d) they bite viciously

12. Who is Brekke fostering?
(a) Zenia
(b) Belinda
(c) Catherin
(d) Mirrim

13. How does Kylara view being a queen's rider?
(a) as a source of power
(b) as demanding
(c) as a source of irritation
(d) as boring

14. What covers the great black wall in the Smithcrafthall?
(a) nothing
(b) tapestries
(c) papers and tools
(d) numbers and diagrams

15. What does F'nor want Mirrim to do?
(a) impress a fighting dragon
(b) impress more fire lizards
(c) marry him
(d) cook better food

Short Answer Questions

1. Why has a meeting been called of the weyrleaders?

2. What kind of dragon does Lord Asgenar have?

3. Who are the parents of Brekke's dragon?

4. Where are Threads falling at the beginning of Chapter 3?

5. Who does Fandarel suggest talking to about fire lizards?

(see the answer keys)

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