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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who else congratulated Menolly?

2. What fire lizard hatched first?

3. What is a Mark?

4. Who does everyone but the Masterharper and Menolly seem to be afraid of?

5. What was the name of Pona's date to the gather?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Menolly become angry after Lord Groghe left?

2. What impression did Menolly get from the fire lizards?

3. Who was the Masterharper and Menolly both concerned for?

4. Why did Menolly confess her past to the two people?

5. How did the Masterharper prepare for a situation that Sebell did not?

6. What hidden message does Menolly tell to Sebell while they are talking with the two other Harpers after playing together?

7. How does Menolly react to being summoned? How is this indicative of how she has been treated?

8. Why did the Master tanner not charge Menolly for the belt?

9. Why couldn't Sebell give the Masterharper the queen fire lizard?

10. What did Pona say in regards to Menolly?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the insatiable envy of the people of the Harpers Hall for Menolly and her way of life. How is her way of life a happy accident, and therefore nothing to be proud of? What kinds of things might they not have envied if they would have known her past?

Essay Topic 2

DIscuss how Pona facilitated growth in Menolly. Use Menolly's reactions to Pona throughout the novel for how to illustrate an illuminate the growth that Menolly has undergone.

Essay Topic 3

Explain Menolly's reaction to kindness, and to finery. How does this accentuate her modest upbringing? Why does she discourage the bestowing of fine articles on her? Explain how vastly Menolly's status improved since her arrival at the Harper Hall. Speculate on how Menolly will develop throughout the novel.

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