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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) Seeing Orien.
(d) Escaping.

2. What saves Birle from Corbel's fate?
(a) Her cooking.
(b) Her fighting.
(c) Her education.
(d) Her crying.

3. What does Birle practice in the evenings with Joaquim?
(a) Writing.
(b) Reading.
(c) Cooking.
(d) Sewing.

4. What does Damall suggest as a deal to Birle in Chapter 20?
(a) He keeps Orien while Yul and Birle go free.
(b) He keeps Yul while Birle and Orien go free.
(c) He keeps Birle while Yul and Orien go free.
(d) He keeps Orien and Yul and Birle goes free.

5. Who is the first person of Birle's family to spot her after her return home?
(a) Reid.
(b) Nan.
(c) Moll.
(d) Da.

6. Where does Birle think she and Orien will be the safest as Orien heals?
(a) Deep into the forest.
(b) At the village they pass.
(c) Back at the rocks.
(d) By the shore.

7. Who is Damall?
(a) The king's general.
(b) The wild man.
(c) The head robber.
(d) Corbel's spy.

8. Who is the woman who sits with the Earl in his room?
(a) Orien's grandmother.
(b) Orien's aunt.
(c) Orien's sister.
(d) Orien's mother.

9. 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.

10. What does Joaquim teach Yul how to do?
(a) Fish.
(b) Speak.
(c) Read.
(d) Write.

11. What is Joaquim's goal?
(a) To grow a herb garden.
(b) To write a book of herbs.
(c) To transmute anything into gold.
(d) To transmute other metals into gold.

12. Why are there two hands nailed to a board?
(a) Because two men cheated Corbel.
(b) Because two men died defending Corbel.
(c) Because two men stole money.
(d) Because two slaves tried to escape.

13. What is another thing the Earl reveals to Birle in Chapter 23?
(a) He is her real grandfather.
(b) He does not think she and Orien suit one another.
(c) He is the one who taught her grandparents to read and write.
(d) He saw her as a baby.

14. What happened to Joaquim's wife?
(a) She was murdered.
(b) She died from a summer fever.
(c) She drowned.
(d) He never had a wife.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is revealed to have murdered Orien's father?

2. To whom is Birle taken to be cared for in Chapter 22?

3. As Birle leaves to go find Orien, who does she run into?

4. Who is inside the bundle of dirty clothes that Yul leans against the wall?

5. What do the nailed hands represent?

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