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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What comment does Marlena make about Jo?
(a) She was born a prophet.
(b) Jo's parents had too many children to keep.
(c) She is Jo's sister.
(d) Her songs were not only beautiful, but prophetic.

2. What valuable skill does Kira believe Matt possesses?
(a) The ability to make blue dye.
(b) The ability to prophesy.
(c) The ability to make people laugh.
(d) The ability to grow blue flowers.

3. Why isn't Kira allowed to watch over Annabella's body in the Field of Leaving?
(a) Jamison tells her she will be tainted for the ceremony.
(b) Jamison tells her she doesn't have time to spare.
(c) She cannot travel outside the Edifice until after the Ruin Song.
(d) Matt is already in the Field watching over Annabella.

4. How does the stranger in Chapter 21 find Kira's village?
(a) By the words to a song.
(b) By the feel of the sun on his face and the smells around him.
(c) There is a map of all the villages in the Book of History.
(d) Matt led him.

5. What does Thomas recall from his childhood in the Edifice?
(a) He was taught to carve wood by a blind man.
(b) He was taught to read by a blind man.
(c) He never went outside the Edifice.
(d) He was locked in his room when he was a little boy.

6. What does Jamison expect Kira to tell everyone with her needle and thread?
(a) Whatever the guardians say.
(b) Her story.
(c) The future.
(d) The past.

7. What does Thomas finish in Chapter 18?
(a) Exploring the Edifice.
(b) The repairs to the Singer's book.
(c) The repairs to the Singer's staff.
(d) Kira's new cott.

8. Who walks through a storm to visit Kira?
(a) Jamison.
(b) Christopher.
(c) Matt and Branch.
(d) Annabella.

9. Which character takes Kira's place in the weaving shed?
(a) Jo.
(b) Matt.
(c) Vandara.
(d) Marlena.

10. What does Jamison tell Kira in Chapter 14?
(a) Annabella was eaten by beasts.
(b) Annabella died of the same illness that killed Kira's mother.
(c) Annabella died in her sleep.
(d) Annabella has moved to the next village.

11. How does the Singer and the crowd end the Ruin song?
(a) "Listen, all ye people."
(b) "Amen. So be it."
(c) "Listen, and remember."
(d) "Thus says the song."

12. What frightens Kira as the Ruin song resumes after lunch?
(a) Matt disappears.
(b) Thomas disappears.
(c) She sees Annabella in the crowd.
(d) She recognizes the source of the mysterious sound.

13. What does Kira give Jo as she tucks her into bed in Chapter 16?
(a) A hug.
(b) An embroidered cloth doll.
(c) Her embroidered scrap of cloth.
(d) A kiss.

14. At the beginning of Chapter 13, whose voice do Kira and her friends hear speaking harshly in the lower floor of the Edifice?
(a) Annabella's voice.
(b) Jamison's voice.
(c) An unknown man's voice.
(d) Christopher's voice.

15. Where do Thomas and Kira sit during the singing of the Ruin song?
(a) In the front row with the crowd.
(b) In their rooms.
(c) Behind the stage until it is their turn to move.
(d) On the stage near the Worship-object.

Short Answer Questions

1. What claim does Thomas make about his and Kira's parents in Chapter 13?

2. How does Matt describe the people he met on his journey?

3. After her visit to Jo in Chapter 16, what does Kira do once she is back in her own bed?

4. What does Jamison recite for Kira in Chapter 18?

5. What is the atmosphere in the Council Edifice as people gather for the singing of the Ruin song?

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