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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Nine and Chapter Ten.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For what will the girls be punished at the academy?
(a) Laughing.
(b) Eating too many sweets.
(c) Speaking out of turn.
(d) Not walking with correct posture.

2. What do Miri and Marda decide not to do?
(a) Go to the academy.
(b) Trade with Enrik again.
(c) Work the mines.
(d) Go with Pa to the festival.

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

4. What does Peder say mining linder is like?
(a) Like flowing in a white light of particles.
(b) Singing along with the mountain.
(c) Being inside a dark abyss.
(d) Like nothing else exists.

5. Who is Mardo?
(a) Miri's aunt.
(b) Miri's grandmother.
(c) Miri's sister.
(d) Miri's best friend.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Miri attempt to read one day?

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

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

5. Who embarrasses Miri?

(see the answer key)

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