2. What do Kira and her friends hear a child doing while on the lower floor of the Edifice in Chapter 13?
(a) Reading.
(b) Jumping.
(c) Singing.
(d) Laughing.

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

4. What gift does the stranger give to Kira in Chapter 21?
(a) The Book of History.
(b) The plants to make blue dye.
(c) A pot of blue dye.
(d) A bag of seeds.

5. How did Kira's father manage to escape the Field of Leaving?
(a) Jamison set him on a horse headed through the woods.
(b) Annabella came and took him to her cott.
(c) He struggled to stand and walked to Annabella's cott.
(d) Strangers came and took him away to a different village.

6. Who has Kira not seen during her stay in the Edifice?
(a) The Ruin Singer.
(b) The Master Guardian.
(c) The cook.
(d) Christopher.

7. Who accompanies Kira to her room after the Ruin song is over?
(a) Matt.
(b) Annabella.
(c) No one.
(d) Thomas.

8. How does Matt's mother react to her son's absence?
(a) She begs Thomas to find Matt.
(b) She is mourning the loss of her son.
(c) She is glad he is gone.
(d) She didn't know he was missing.

9. In Chapter 12, what sound has Thomas heard at night?
(a) An eerie singing.
(b) A crying child.
(c) A metallic scraping.
(d) An electronic humming.

10. What claim does Thomas make about his and Kira's parents in Chapter 13?
(a) Their deaths may be suspicious.
(b) They may still be alive.
(c) They were the only good people in the world.
(d) They abandoned their children on purpose.

11. Where does Christopher ask Kira to go?
(a) Back to his village to begin a new life.
(b) Down to the dungeon.
(c) With him to the Council of Guardians.
(d) To the woods to find blue flowers.

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

13. What political office was Kira's father to be appointed to before his "death"?
(a) The Council of Guardians.
(b) Keeper of the Song.
(c) Keeper of the Staff.
(d) The Village Council.

14. How is Jo supposed to contact Thomas if she needs help?
(a) Sing a special song through the pipes.
(b) Hit the bathroom pipes with a hairbrush.
(c) Knock on her ceiling with a hairbrush.
(d) Knock on the bathroom floor with a hairbrush.

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