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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 does Miri remember from long ago?
(a) A fox family she saw in a cave.
(b) A bandit attack.
(c) Her uncle visiting and her father yelling then, too.
(d) Her mother screaming like that.

2. Why does Miri wonder about Britta's motives?
(a) Britta is always late.
(b) Britta does not keep her cubicle neat.
(c) Britta fails to read letters.
(d) Britta will not speak to the other girls.

3. With what does Miri experiment as she thinks about what Peder says mining linder is like?
(a) Feeling the vibrations in the stone at the academy.
(b) Quarry-speech.
(c) Singing her reading lessons.
(d) Reading backwards.

4. Who cannot get the image of a rat in the closet out of her mind?
(a) Britta.
(b) Gerti.
(c) Miri.
(d) Olana.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What will Miri's Pa not let her do?

2. Who is Olana Mansdaughter?

3. How does Britta manage to get out of working at the quarry?

4. Whose hand does Miri take as she is walking to the academy?

5. What does Miri learn about one block of linder?

(see the answer key)

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