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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Eleven and Chapter Twelve.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Miri discover about Britta?
(a) She is deathly afraid of going down in the linder mine.
(b) She was able to read before starting at the academy.
(c) She is in love with a boy from another country.
(d) Olana is her aunt.

2. What does Britta hope about the new princess?
(a) She will help the village of Mount Eskel.
(b) She will be from Mount Eskel.
(c) She will fall in love with the prince.
(d) She will be kind.

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

4. What does Miri look forward to in the opening of Chapter 9?
(a) Solstice holiday.
(b) Fall holiday.
(c) Summer holiday.
(d) Spring holiday.

5. What are the ages of the girls who must attend an academy?
(a) 12-21.
(b) 10-21.
(c) 12-17.
(d) 5-15.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Bena and Liana think of the village boys?

2. With what does Miri experiment as she thinks about what Peder says mining linder is like?

3. With what animal does Miri experiment?

4. What does Miri say about Enrik?

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

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