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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Kkarina say most men want after their first drakk hunt?
(a) To visit the baggeries.
(b) To bathe several times.
(c) To sleep.
(d) To get away from the nursery.

2. What does Jakkin hear in the pit above him?
(a) The sounds of fire burning some of the boundary barrels.
(b) A dragon dying.
(c) Sarkkhan's dragon fighting.
(d) A drakk challenging a dragon.

3. Who pushes Jakkin aside when Jakkin is trying to tend to Red's wounds?
(a) No one.
(b) Likkarn.
(c) Sakkhan.
(d) Akki.

4. What happens when Jakkin calls out to his dragon?
(a) The dragon is gone.
(b) He gets no response.
(c) The dragon breathes fire.
(d) A strong burst of color happens in Jakkin's head.

5. What does Sakkhan ask for of Red?
(a) Nothing.
(b) First pick of Red's first litter.
(c) That Red not be bred.
(d) That Red fight for Sakkhan every other time.

6. Where does Jakkin entice the young dragon to go?
(a) The warm stream.
(b) The back of the cave.
(c) The hot sand baths.
(d) Next to Jakkin.

7. What signifies to Jakkin that his young dragon knows he is coming to the oasis?
(a) The dragon flies out to meet Jakkin.
(b) The dragon speaks words in Jakkin's mind.
(c) There is a burst of color in Jakkin's head.
(d) The dragon makes a particular noise.

8. What does the dragon do when Jakkin is unbalanced by the stream?
(a) Bellows.
(b) Jumps in the water and splashes Jakkin.
(c) Pushes Jakkin in the water.
(d) Tries to steady Jakkin.

9. How does Jakkin plan to get his dragon to Krakkow?
(a) Walk it.
(b) Ride it.
(c) He has no idea.
(d) Send it with some of the dragons where he works.

10. Who has precedence at the rails?
(a) Free men.
(b) Trainers.
(c) No one.
(d) Bondmen.

11. Who will Jakkin's dragon be fighting?
(a) Heart O'Mine.
(b) Heart to Heart.
(c) Bottle O'Rum.
(d) Bottle O'Fire.

12. What does Jakkin wonder about all rites of passages to manhood?
(a) If they are all as difficult as the drakk hunt.
(b) If it is all meaningless.
(c) If they are all lies.
(d) If he passed even though he peed in his pants out of fear.

13. What do Akki and Jakkin do back at the oasis?
(a) Get ready to move the dragon.
(b) Train the dragon.
(c) Prepare a week's worth of food.
(d) Play with the dragon and then lie in the sun.

14. What does Sarkkhan give Jakkin?
(a) A week off.
(b) Gold pieces.
(c) Nothing.
(d) A promotion.

15. How does Akki bandage Jakkin's wounds?
(a) Jakkin did not get hurt.
(b) With her shirt.
(c) She doesn't since it's all healed from the dragon licking it.
(d) With Jakkin's shirt.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much time has gone by when Chapter 17 opens?

2. What does Likkarn say Rum is using?

3. What color does Jakkin notice his dragon is?

4. About what does Jakkin get angry at Akki?

5. What do the people not ask when Jakkin and Akki arrive with the drakk?

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