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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sarkkhan do to Likkarn?
(a) Kill him.
(b) Send him to another dragon colony.
(c) Break him back to stableboy.
(d) Whip him badly.

2. What does Jakkin tell Likkarn when Jakkin returns to the nursery?
(a) That a drakk flew over the nursery.
(b) That Likkarn's brother needs him to clean a stall.
(c) That Jakkin is going to get even with Likkarn.
(d) That Akki is not to be bothered.

3. Why does Jakkin start crying?
(a) He hurts so bad.
(b) He learns he's been in the hospital for a week.
(c) He learns that Sarkkhan killed Likkarn.
(d) He learns his best friend was killed.

4. Who catches Slakk?
(a) Likkarn.
(b) Jakkin.
(c) Akki.
(d) Breskkin.

5. Why does Likkarn make the sounds of a young dragon?
(a) He does not make that sound since it would be dangerous.
(b) To tease the other hunters.
(c) Hoping a drakk will attack Jakkin.
(d) To draw the drakks away from where Jakkin is climbing.

6. What does Jakkin accidentally do?
(a) Twist his ankle.
(b) Set fire to the hay loft.
(c) Reopen a wound.
(d) Knock over one of the female dragon's food.

7. What do the slaves think of their master, Sarkkhan?
(a) He does not know anything about dragons.
(b) He is rarely around.
(c) He is harsh.
(d) He is kind.

8. What time of day is it when Jakkin wakes?
(a) Midday.
(b) Almost Dark After.
(c) Morning.
(d) The early afternoon.

9. What angers Jakkin when the boys' teasing intensifies?
(a) They say something about Jakkin's father.
(b) They say something about Jakkin's mother.
(c) They imply Jakkin had been having sex with Akki.
(d) They imply that Jakkin likes Kitkkin.

10. How does Likkarn control his young charges?
(a) With rational explanations.
(b) With fear and pain.
(c) With kindness.
(d) By evoking loyalty.

11. Of whom does Jakkin think who bleeds to death in the desert?
(a) His father.
(b) His uncle.
(c) Errikkin.
(d) Likkarn.

12. What does Jakkin find in Heat O' Mine's hatchling area?
(a) Another bond boy.
(b) A mrakk.
(c) A wounded hatchling.
(d) A drakk.

13. About what do the boys give Jakkin a hard time?
(a) Running away from Blood Brother.
(b) Standing up to an enraged Likkarn.
(c) Asking for his own dragon to care for.
(d) Having Akki as his nurse.

14. How does Jakkin get burned?
(a) He is not burned.
(b) An overturned firebox.
(c) The dragon sand gets too hot.
(d) Splattered dragon blood.

15. To what is Jakkin listening?
(a) Two dragons fighting.
(b) The male dragons trumpeting.
(c) Two slaves fighting.
(d) The hatchings inside the eggs.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Jakkin calm as he looks in on the hatchlings?

2. To what is the desolate, ex-prison planet discussed in the Introduction most conducive?

3. What is sitting on Heat O' Mine's head?

4. What are the men told to use sparingly?

5. What does Jakkin realize about what is on Heat O' Mine's head?

(see the answer keys)

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