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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Kira do while she waits for the storm in Chapter 12 to pass?
(a) Explores the Edifice with her friends.
(b) Works.
(c) Embroiders her mother's dress.
(d) Cleans the bathroom.

2. Who does Kira speak to through a door keyhole?
(a) Thomas.
(b) Jamison.
(c) Matt.
(d) Jo.

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

4. How does Thomas open the locks in the Edifice?
(a) With a key he carved.
(b) With a metal stick.
(c) By unscrewing the lock faces.
(d) With a stolen key.

5. While learning the plants used to create cloth dyes, what has Kira also been learning?
(a) How to tell the future.
(b) How to sing.
(c) How to carve.
(d) How to read.

Short Answer Questions

1. What comment does Marlena make about Jo?

2. Who walks through a storm to visit Kira?

3. Where do Thomas and Kira sit during the singing of the Ruin song?

4. Where does Christopher ask Kira to go?

5. What gift does the stranger give to Kira in Chapter 21?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Thomas claim to have heard in Chapter 12 and how do the children react to his claim?

2. Describe what is known about the character Jo by the end of Chapter 13.

3. What does Kira find suspicious about Jo's situation, and why?

4. Describe Thomas, Kira, and Matt's exploration of the lower floor of the Edifice.

5. What is Jamison's role in the attack on Christopher?

6. What does the Gathering ceremony resemble?

7. Who is the blind man and what is his significance in the story?

8. How have the words of the Ruin song been distorted over time?

9. How does Kira spend her rainy day in Chapter 12?

10. How does Kira react when Jamison refuses to allow her to watch over Annabella's body in the Field of Leaving?

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