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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Seven and Chapter Eight.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word makes Miri exchange the book she is reading for another book?
(a) Circumnavigate.
(b) Commerce.
(c) Endeavor.
(d) Hostility.

2. What does Olana claim about the cottage in a picture she shows the girls?
(a) The successful girl's family will receive the cottage.
(b) It is where the last princess was born.
(c) That the painting was done by the prince.
(d) It is where Olana was born.

3. What happens when Olana catches Miri returning a book?
(a) Miri has to leave the academy.
(b) Miri has to admit her deed to the class.
(c) Miri has to stay in the closet.
(d) Olana offers to help Miri read better.

4. What is quarry-speech?
(a) The language the priest uses in his chanting in the temple.
(b) The way the kids talk to each other so their parents won't understand.
(c) The way the lowlanders are said to talk.
(d) A way of communicating in the noisy mine environment.

5. Who is the only one able to read out loud one day in the classroom?
(a) Miri.
(b) No one.
(c) Britta.
(d) Greti.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Miri feel at the academy?

2. With what does Miri experiment as she thinks about what Peder says mining linder is like?

3. Who does Miri overhear speaking about her in the evening?

4. Who reminds Olanda about Miri?

5. Who are the girls told not to bother at the academy?

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