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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. Why do the girls blame Miri that they cannot go home?
(a) Because she speaks out against the rules and the girls are forbidden to go home.
(b) Because Miri is too friendly to Britta.
(c) Because Miri is so independent.
(d) Because her family is wealthier than the other villagers.

2. In what does Miri take comfort?
(a) Thinking about the princess gown.
(b) That the academy is so close to her home.
(c) That Katar is unable to read.
(d) That the academy is only a couple weeks long.

3. How does Miri feel at the academy?
(a) Isolated from the other girls.
(b) Happy to be learning.
(c) Excited at the new friends she is making.
(d) Depressed because she misses her dog.

4. What is Miri not wanting to do in order to get her family a house?
(a) Pretending to be deaf to the quarry speech.
(b) Marry the prince.
(c) Never work in the linder mines.
(d) Give up a possibility of being the academy princess.

5. Why is Katar jealous?
(a) That Britta can read out loud.
(b) That Miri can read out loud.
(c) That Britta gets to meet with the prince by herself.
(d) That Greti can read out loud.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who cannot get the image of a rat in the closet out of her mind?

2. What are the ages of the girls who must attend an academy?

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

4. What does Peder say mining linder is like?

5. What have priests determined about Mount Eskel?

(see the answer key)

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