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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Birle hope to accomplish at the marketplace in Chapter 13?
(a) Finding another master.
(b) Purchasing bread.
(c) Escaping.
(d) Seeing Orien.

2. What blocks the path of Birle, Yul, and Orien as they are escaping the city?
(a) Corbel.
(b) Joaquim.
(c) An army of men.
(d) Pirates.

3. Who is inside the bundle of dirty clothes that Yul leans against the wall?
(a) The Little Mistress.
(b) Joaquim.
(c) Orien.
(d) The boy.

4. What happens at the end of Chapter 19?
(a) Orien dies.
(b) The army of men have found them.
(c) Corbel finds them and threatens to kill them.
(d) A figure jumps out and threatens to kill Birle.

5. Who does Joaquim say has fled the city after Corbel's marriage?
(a) Orien.
(b) The priests.
(c) The guildsmen.
(d) Corbel's soldiers.

6. What does Birle request of the Earl and his Lady near the end of Chapter 23?
(a) To give birth to her child in the castle.
(b) To leave the castle and not return.
(c) To have her family brought to the castle.
(d) To wed Orien immediately.

7. To whom is Birle taken to be cared for in Chapter 22?
(a) The maidservants.
(b) Orien's grandfather.
(c) Gladaegal's wife.
(d) Gladaegal.

8. Who is revealed to have murdered Orien's father?
(a) The Earl.
(b) Gladaegal.
(c) A huntsman seeking revenge.
(d) Gladaegal's wife.

9. What does Birle suggest Orien do?
(a) Run away to the Kingdom.
(b) Send a letter to his grandfather.
(c) Stay where he is and she will get him out.
(d) Run away to the Philosopher's house.

10. How does Orien's brother greet him?
(a) Angerly.
(b) Nonchalantly.
(c) Joyously.
(d) Enviously.

11. If people in the Kingdom asked, what was Birle and Orien's cover story for Orien?
(a) He was Birle's husband.
(b) He was a groom delivering himself and the horse to a Lord.
(c) He was a ministral.
(d) He was the Earl of Sutherland.

12. What is Birle's main goal for going to the marketplace?
(a) To meet new people.
(b) To buy useful household items.
(c) To search for Joaquim's herbs.
(d) To look for Orien.

13. What does Corbel suggest doing with Birle?
(a) Making her his second wife.
(b) Having her marry Joaquim.
(c) Selling her away.
(d) Giving her as a gift to his wife.

14. What does Birle tell Yul to do if they get parted at the marketplace?
(a) To go back home.
(b) To stand still.
(c) To look for her.
(d) To call out her name.

15. Where are Birle and Orien headed in Chapter 21?
(a) Far away.
(b) To the rock.
(c) To the port city.
(d) To the Kingdom.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the nailed hands represent?

2. Who is Damall?

3. What does Birle realize after seeing Orien disappear after he sees her?

4. What changes in Orien and Birle's relationship in Chapter 21?

5. Why does Corbel get angry with Birle?

(see the answer keys)

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