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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Ruin Song?
(a) A song sung during the weekly religious ceremony.
(b) The oral history of Kira's people that is sung every decade.
(c) The oral history of Kira's people that is sung annually.
(d) The song sung by the men while they are on the Great Hunt.

2. What does Matt fear Kira might be while living in the Edifice?
(a) Tortured.
(b) A servant.
(c) A mistress.
(d) A prisoner.

3. Who are the tenders?
(a) Young boys who tend the flocks.
(b) Boys training to be Guardians.
(c) Acolytes who participate in religious ceremonies.
(d) Servants who care for the orphans in the Edifice.

4. What crime has Vandara been accused of in the past?
(a) Poisoning her own child.
(b) Murdering her mother.
(c) Poisioning her husband.
(d) Stealing cloth from the weavers.

5. What are Matt and his friends doing while Kira is on trial?
(a) Praying that Kira will not be put in the Field of Leaving.
(b) Planning Kira's escape.
(c) Cooking a meal for Kira.
(d) Gathering saplings to make her a new cott.

6. What does Matt attempt to take from Kira in Chapter 10?
(a) Her pendant.
(b) Her embroidered cloth.
(c) Food.
(d) Her pillow.

7. What reportedly caused Vandara's scar?
(a) Her husband's beatings.
(b) A falling branch.
(c) An animal attack.
(d) A fire.

8. What is Kira's job in the Edifice?
(a) To repair the Singer's hat.
(b) To embroider the Singer's cloak.
(c) To knit the Ruin Singer a new stole.
(d) To repair and maintain the Singer's robe.

9. What does Kira discover is still intact in Chapter 2 when she returns home?
(a) Her well.
(b) Her loom.
(c) Her garden.
(d) Her cott.

10. What is in the large box that the council brings before Kira?
(a) The singer's robe.
(b) The singer's hat.
(c) The singer's stole.
(d) The singer's cloak.

11. What does Matt question Kira about in Chapter 1?
(a) Her mother's death.
(b) The council's decision.
(c) The Field of Leaving.
(d) Her property.

12. What does Kira intend to do with the stains on her mother's skirt?
(a) Embroider around them.
(b) Patch them.
(c) Bleach them.
(d) Wash them.

13. Who gave the pendant to Kira's mother?
(a) Jamison.
(b) Her father.
(c) The Council of Guardians,
(d) Annabella.

14. What does Matt have inside the bundle he has for Kira in Chapter 6?
(a) Items he removed from her cott before it was burned.
(b) Food for her journey.
(c) Flower bulbs from her garden.
(d) A bundle of threads from her loom.

15. Who is Kira thinking of as she drifts off to sleep in her new bed in the Edifice?
(a) Her future.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Matt.
(d) Her father.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do Vandara and the other women think Kira is useless?

2. According to local law, who may be appointed to defend Kira?

3. What is Thomas' job in the Edifice?

4. What does Kira sleep with the night after she is frightened along the path to Annabella's house?

5. What shocks Kira about her new accommodations in the Edifice?

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