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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Matt describe the people he met on his journey?
(a) Dark and mysterious.
(b) Broken, but quiet and nice.
(c) Tall and powerful.
(d) Joyful and strong.

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

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

5. What does Jamison recite for Kira in Chapter 18?
(a) Poems from before the Ruin.
(b) The song of the Great Hunt.
(c) Passages from the Ruin song.
(d) The rules of the Edifice.

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

7. 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."

8. Where are the parents of the child heard in Chapter 13?
(a) In the village.
(b) In the next village.
(c) In the Fen.
(d) Both are dead.

9. What unusual sound does Kira hear at the beginning of the Ruin song ceremony?
(a) A soft buzzing.
(b) A metallic scraping.
(c) An electronic beeping.
(d) An echoing ring.

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

11. Where do Kira and Thomas go in Chapter 17?
(a) To Annabella's cott.
(b) To the next village.
(c) To the dungeons of the Edifice.
(d) To the Fen.

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

13. What is being constructed for Kira at the beginning of Chapter 15?
(a) A place to instruct the girls of the village.
(b) A new cott.
(c) A place to grow and process the plants used in dye making.
(d) A weaver's shed.

14. According to Matt, where is Jo from?
(a) From "far yonder."
(b) The next village.
(c) The mountains.
(d) The Fen.

15. What area do Kira and Thomas pass as they look for Matt in Chapter 17?
(a) Kira's old cott.
(b) The weaver's shed.
(c) The Field of Leaving.
(d) The potter's shed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Kira want Thomas to accompany her in Chapter 15?

2. Who does Matt see in the Field of Leaving in Chapter 14?

3. What does Kira finish in Chapter 18?

4. Why isn't Kira allowed to watch over Annabella's body in the Field of Leaving?

5. What does Kira do while she waits for the storm in Chapter 12 to pass?

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