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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does Birle find out that she will be freed?
(a) In six month's time.
(b) Never.
(c) In seven year's time.
(d) In six year's time.

2. What alerts the mysterious figure to Birle's presence?
(a) She trips and lets out a yelp.
(b) She calls out to the figure.
(c) She falls into the river making a splash.
(d) She steps on wooden planks which make noise.

3. When Birle awakens from sleeping on the boat in Chapter 6, what is she met with?
(a) Being kidnapped.
(b) Rain.
(c) Fog.
(d) The disappearance of the Lord.

4. What happens to Birle when she realizes she has been spotted by the thief?
(a) She tackles the thief.
(b) She pulls the boat towards her and away from the thief.
(c) She tries to get the boat and falls into the water.
(d) She lets out a cry to sound the alarm of the theft.

5. How does the Lord say that men of his stature bathe in the winter?
(a) By sitting in tubs.
(b) By standing in wooden crates.
(c) By sitting in metal tins.
(d) By standing in wine barrels.

6. Who else do Birle and the Lord discover is out on the waters with them?
(a) Two pirates.
(b) Two fishermen.
(c) Two thugs.
(d) Two sailors.

7. Who is Lyss?
(a) Birle's mother.
(b) Birle's grandmother.
(c) Birle's sister.
(d) Birle's stepmother.

8. What is Birle's position in society?
(a) Innkeeper's daughter.
(b) Farmer's daughter.
(c) Tavern wench.
(d) Innkeeper's wife.

9. Who does Orien wave his arms towards from his location on the rock?
(a) A boat he sees in the distance.
(b) No one. He was stretching but Birle thought he was waving.
(c) Birle.
(d) Hallucinations.

10. What does Orien do to entertain Birle and pass the time while they are stranded on the rock?
(a) Tell a story.
(b) Draw pictures in the sand.
(c) Sing.
(d) Dance.

11. How do the people of the village bathe in the winter, according to Birle?
(a) By standing in wooden crates.
(b) By sitting in tubs.
(c) By sitting in metal tins.
(d) By standing in wine barrels.

12. What mythological creature does the Earl use as an example in the discussion that he and Birle have about doubt?
(a) Dragons.
(b) Nymphs.
(c) Phoenixes.
(d) Mermaids.

13. What happened to the one woman that Orien loved?
(a) She died before they could wed.
(b) His father stole her away and left the country.
(c) His father, the Earl, married her instead.
(d) His brother married her instead.

14. Birle knows that the movement she sees at the beginning of the novel is not a man of the village because of what?
(a) Men of the village make no noise.
(b) Men of the village always walk in pairs.
(c) Men of the village are shorter.
(d) Men of the village carry a light.

15. What relation do Joaquim and Corbel have?
(a) They are father and son.
(b) They are brothers.
(c) They are friends.
(d) They are servant and master.

Short Answer Questions

1. What question from Birle turns the Lord reticent for two days?

2. As Birle watches the Lord shave, what understanding does she come to about this?

3. What does Birle conclude that the mysterious figure is after he spots her?

4. What is the only name by which Birle says she knows of her mother's father?

5. What is put on Birle and Yul to identify them as belonging to Corbel?

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