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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 didn't Menolly consider licking the juice from her fingers from the redfruit?
(a) None of these.
(b) It was poor manners and the girls are obviously haughty.
(c) The girls would think ill of her.
(d) The girls were too stuffy and would stare.

2. What unusual combination of factors woke Menolly?
(a) Warmth and sounds.
(b) Sounds and light.
(c) Light and warmth.
(d) Sounds and smells.

3. What did Master Jerint say in regard to fire lizards?
(a) "They are much more practical than dragons."
(b) "They are too stupid to live up to the tales of dragons."
(c) "They are much more beautiful than dragons."
(d) "They look like little dragons."

4. What are the names of the green fire lizards?
(a) Beauty and Mimic.
(b) Rocky and Diver.
(c) Lazybones and Uncle.
(d) Auntie's One and Two.

5. What was it that Menolly was told to remember?
(a) That she had survived this long and had nothing to fear from the Harpers.
(b) Every Harper on Pern was looking for Petiron's lost apprentice.
(c) None of these.
(d) That she had the command of nine fire lizards.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Master Shonagar tell Menolly to sing from?

2. What did Master Oldive give to Menolly?

3. Who had a word with Talmor about the fire lizard eggs?

4. What did Master Jerint do that Beauty liked?

5. How many more days did Silvina tell Dunca it was until the next Threadfall?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was supposed to give Menolly her first lesson for the day, and how was she to have been told?

2. Why was rehearsal usually fun?

3. Why did Menolly find little to criticize in the fire lizards' singing?

4. What seems to be the attitude of Master Morshal's opinion of women as harpers?

5. Why does Menolly expect that her parents were unappreciative of her music?

6. How did the boys at the Harper Hall act differently from those at the Half Sea Hold?

7. Why did Menolly wish that she could go between?

8. What did Menolly observe about the way people ate at the dining hall?

9. How did Menolly imagine life in the Harper Hall?

10. In what way was Dunca's reaction to Menolly feeding her fire lizards hypocritical?

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