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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Nineteen and Chapter Twenty.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who cannot get the image of a rat in the closet out of her mind?
(a) Olana.
(b) Britta.
(c) Gerti.
(d) Miri.

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

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

5. How does Miri want to talk to Peder?
(a) Privately.
(b) With what she learned in Conversation.
(c) Without his family around.
(d) In the King's high language she's been learning.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Olana put Gerti in the closet?

2. What does Olana allow the girls to do in the summer?

3. How is the prince described?

4. Who is the only one able to read out loud one day in the classroom?

5. What does Miri say about Enrik?

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