3. What have priests determined about Mount Eskel?
(a) It is the site of the first landing of their peoples.
(b) That it is in danger of a plague.
(c) It is in danger from a possible volcanic eruption.
(d) The prince's bride will come from there.

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

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

6. What word makes Miri exchange the book she is reading for another book?
(a) Circumnavigate.
(b) Hostility.
(c) Commerce.
(d) Endeavor.

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

8. What happens when Olana catches Miri returning a book?
(a) Miri has to admit her deed to the class.
(b) Miri has to leave the academy.
(c) Miri has to stay in the closet.
(d) Olana offers to help Miri read better.

9. How does Miri feel at the academy?
(a) Isolated from the other girls.
(b) Happy to be learning.
(c) Excited at the new friends she is making.
(d) Depressed because she misses her dog.

10. What does Miri doubt she could do when she is musing about the prince?
(a) Leave her village.
(b) Marry someone she does not know.
(c) Ever feel anything but inferior.
(d) Leave her sister.

11. What does Miri want to see in the lowlands?
(a) The gardens.
(b) The ocean.
(c) The palace.
(d) A dragon.

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

13. What does Miri present to Olana?
(a) An idea about a permanent academy.
(b) The girls' demands.
(c) The present the girls bought from the traders.
(d) Nothing.

14. What is Doter good at doing?
(a) Throwing pots.
(b) Sewing.
(c) Painting.
(d) Trading.

15. What does Olana claim about the cottage in a picture she shows the girls?
(a) That the painting was done by the prince.
(b) It is where Olana was born.
(c) The successful girl's family will receive the cottage.
(d) It is where the last princess was born.