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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Kira realize she has never seen either dead or alive after she returns to the Edifice in Chapter 11?
(a) Blue flowers.
(b) A beast.
(c) A crippled person.
(d) A bear or a wolf.

2. What do some of the villagers want to build on Kira's property?
(a) A new cott.
(b) A weaving shed.
(c) A corral.
(d) A bonfire.

3. Why isn't Matt allowed to enter the Field of Leaving?
(a) He was born under an unlucky omen.
(b) He is too young.
(c) He has no relatives currently in the Field.
(d) He does not belong to the village.

4. What is worn during the singing of the Ruin Song?
(a) The singer's cloak.
(b) The singer's stole.
(c) The singer's hat.
(d) The singer's robe.

5. What is the Ruin Song?
(a) The song sung by the men while they are on the Great Hunt.
(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) A song sung during the weekly religious ceremony.

6. Where do the women of the village plan to take Kira?
(a) Before the Council of Guardians.
(b) To the Field of Leaving.
(c) To the woods.
(d) To the next village.

7. Where is Kira's father in Chapter 1?
(a) In the Council Edifice.
(b) Hunting with the other men.
(c) At the cott.
(d) Missing and presumed dead.

8. What does Jamison do while Vandara is presenting her accusation?
(a) Takes notes.
(b) Reads.
(c) Sleeps.
(d) Watches Kira.

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

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

11. What does Kira have in her new room that was not in her cott?
(a) A lamp.
(b) A closet.
(c) Electricity.
(d) A window.

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

13. How did Kira's father reportedly die?
(a) He fell off a cliff while he was hunting.
(b) He drowned in the river while he was fishing.
(c) He fell out of a boat and drowned.
(d) Beasts attacked him and dragged him away while he was hunting.

14. Why does Kira decide to visit Annabella?
(a) To learn the process of dyeing cloth.
(b) To learn the secrets of the Guardians.
(c) To find her father.
(d) Because Annabella is her grandmother.

15. What object is Kira commanded by the Council of Guardians to mend?
(a) The singer's robe.
(b) The singer's stole.
(c) The singer's cloak.
(d) The singer's hat.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Vandara and the other women threaten Kira with in Chapter 2?

2. Where does Kira travel at mid-morning in Chapter 3?

3. How do the members of the council respond to Kira's ritual actions in Chapter 3?

4. What reportedly caused Vandara's scar?

5. What does Kira do when Vandara and the village women leave?

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