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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 marked the girls' table?
(a) The inclusion of fruit.
(b) The table cloth.
(c) Cushions on the wood.
(d) The inclusion of cutlery.

2. Why was Dunca grumbling about Petiron?
(a) She was his sister.
(b) She had hoped to marry him after his wife had passed.
(c) She was a classmate.
(d) All of these.

3. What wakes up Master Shonagar from his sleep?
(a) Both of these.
(b) Meals.
(c) Flat tone.
(d) Neither of these.

4. What did Menolly have more of than the boys?
(a) Roots.
(b) All of these.
(c) Tubers.
(d) Bread.

5. Which fire lizard's voice soared above the male apprentices?
(a) Beauty.
(b) Aunty Two.
(c) Mimic.
(d) Aunty One.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who else does the Masterharper want Menolly to see?

2. What did Master Jerint do that Beauty liked?

3. What scared the apprentice that ran into Menolly?

4. What did the fire lizards react to?

5. What did Master Shonagar find interesting regarding what Petiron had taught her?

Short Essay Questions

1. What startled Menolly about the way Master Jerint was addressed by the stocky man who was wearing faded journeyman's markings?

2. Why would the fire lizards eat pretty much any time?

3. Why were the other girls mad at Menolly?

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

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

6. Why was Menolly's arrival at the Harper Craft Hall a triumphal success?

7. What does it mean to 'walk the tables'?

8. Why was rehearsal usually fun?

9. What was strange to Menolly about the closings on the doors?

10. Who is Master Harper Robinton the son of, and why did this surprise Menolly?

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