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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Katsa get Bitterblue through the snow?
(a) Tying a log behind the horse and letting it drag the two women.
(b) Carrying Bitterblue while using snowshoes Katsa makes.
(c) Using the horse to clear a footpath path.
(d) Following a wild sheep trail.

2. How does King Leck catch up to Ashen?
(a) He is riding horses and they are on foot.
(b) She hurt her back by a fall.
(c) He uses his Grace to determine their path.
(d) She hurt her leg.

3. What does Po sense on the other side of a waterfall?
(a) A hiding place.
(b) King Leck.
(c) A boat.
(d) Some soldiers.

4. What does Po's castle appear to be as they finally approach it from sea?
(a) A large house with a tower on top of a cliff.
(b) A small city.
(c) A typical castle.
(d) A fortress.

5. Why is Katsa overjoyed when she is in Monspot?
(a) Po asks her to marry him.
(b) Katsa's mother is there.
(c) Some of her old friends are there.
(d) Bitterblue asks her to be her attendant.

6. Who else does Po begin to wrestle?
(a) Bitterblue.
(b) Raffin.
(c) Oll.
(d) Katsa.

7. What does Katsa figure out about Po?
(a) He is ashamed.
(b) He is blind.
(c) He is deaf.
(d) His leg wound has not healed.

8. Who accompanies Katsa to Monport?
(a) Just Bitterblue.
(b) One of Po's brothers.
(c) No one.
(d) Bitterblue, Ror and Skye.

9. Why does Po's horse fall into the water?
(a) It is ill.
(b) It is wounded.
(c) Po urges it to do so.
(d) The edge of the cliff breaks away.

10. Who does Po first feel after Katsa and Bitterblue leave?
(a) Exhilarated that he could still care for himself blind.
(b) Suicidal.
(c) Filled with self pity.
(d) Abandoned.

11. Who chases Po and Katsa?
(a) No one.
(b) King Leck's soldiers.
(c) An evil spirit.
(d) A bear.

12. How does the servant act who lets them into Po's castle?
(a) As if he is expecting them.
(b) Sad.
(c) Outraged.
(d) Hostile.

13. What does Katsa make out of some rabbit skins?
(a) A travois to carry the wounded Po.
(b) A way of confusing someone with tracking Grace.
(c) A cover for Po.
(d) A coat for Bitterblue.

14. What did Po's mother fear her husband would do?
(a) Kill Po.
(b) Exile Po.
(c) Use Po's talents for his own ends.
(d) Use a priest to block Po's Grace.

15. What does Bitterblue decide she wants to learn?
(a) To move things with her Grace.
(b) To play a lyre.
(c) To use a bow and arrows.
(d) To use a sword.

Short Answer Questions

1. What keeps Katsa from doing anything Leck says?

2. Where do Katsa and Po stop on the pass into Monsea?

3. What do Po and Katsa know they need to do by nightfall the next day?

4. How does Katsa get an exhausted Bitterblue to continue moving?

5. What does Katsa fear concerning Po?

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