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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 learn about one block of linder?
(a) It can only be carved by someone with quarry-speech abilities.
(b) It has strong healing properties.
(c) It is worth one gold coin.
(d) It is the densest matter in the land.

2. Where is the academy?
(a) In the stone minister's house.
(b) In the lowlands.
(c) Near the Dark Forest.
(d) On the top of Mount Eskel.

3. How long has Miri been friends with Peder Doterson?
(a) Since childhood.
(b) Two or so years.
(c) A few days.
(d) A year.

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

5. What subject can Miri not seem to master?
(a) Finance.
(b) Lineage.
(c) Agriculture.
(d) Commerce.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Katar jealous?

2. What does Olana never let the girls forget?

3. What does Miri attempt to read one day?

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

5. What is the village's only natural resource?

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