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

2. Where does F'lar take some of the southern grubs?
(a) to the Masterherbsman
(b) to Fandarel
(c) to Robinton
(d) to the Masterherdsman

3. What type of women do queen dragons usually chose?
(a) weyr women
(b) those raised outside the weyrs
(c) petite women
(d) young women

4. What are F'nor and Canth looking for around various holds?
(a) a rider candidate for a golden egg
(b) a way to stop thread
(c) a wife for F'nor
(d) a way to kill thread easily

5. Why does Mardra use a flame thrower instead of brimstone?
(a) to keep Loranth fertile
(b) brimstone's too heavy for her to handle
(c) Loranth can't chew it
(d) Loranth is too young for brimstone

Short Answer Questions

1. How do dragons get matched with their human companions?

2. What is the name of Brekke's queen?

3. How do the Oldtimers feel about destroying the source of thread?

4. What does F'lar want to do if they make a telescope?

5. What does Lord Groghe neglect around his living areas?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are two fundamental rules concerning dragons that bear on the situation with F'nor?

2. What does Robinton think about composing a song about dragons. How are dragons and humans matched and what can dragons do that's so special?

3. What do the adults who find Jaxom and Felessan find and see when they go in the room where the boys are found?

4. What does F'nor think about Brekke and why?

5. What does F'lar observe about the fire lizards?

6. What does F'lar find when he visits the Smithcrafthall?

7. What is the distance-writer; how does it work, and who has it?

8. What does F'lar say they must do in order for Pern to survive?

9. What is Lord Groghe having his people do and why? What is he ignoring by doing this but what obligation does he fulfill?

10. How does Kylara feel when she finds a fire lizard nest and what does she plan to do with them? Why?

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