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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. When will the prince choose his bride?
(a) His father chooses the bride.
(b) In one year.
(c) When he becomes king.
(d) He does not get to choose; the priests do.

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

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

4. Why does Miri dismiss Britta?
(a) She is a know it all.
(b) She is a lowlander.
(c) She acts coy.
(d) She stutters.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom does Miri decide to try out her quarry-speech?

2. What happens when Olana catches Miri returning a book?

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

4. Why does Miri wonder about Britta's motives?

5. What subject can Miri not seem to master?

(see the answer key)

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