2. How does Britta manage to get out of working at the quarry?
(a) She acted deaf.
(b) She bribes the administrator.
(c) She wants to work at the quarry.
(d) She smashed her finger.

3. What do Bena and Liana think of the village boys?
(a) They are silly.
(b) They are boring.
(c) They are for the most part, handsome.
(d) They are a welcome sight after being gone so long.

4. With whom does Miri bond?
(a) Katar.
(b) Esa.
(c) Olana.
(d) Gresti.

5. What book does Miri pick up after the first one?
(a) A book about etiquette.
(b) A book about cooking.
(c) A book of Tales.
(d) A book about raising children.

6. Where is Enrik's home?
(a) Up in the mountains.
(b) A village on the ocean.
(c) The lowlands.
(d) In the Linder forest.

7. Why does Miri wonder about Britta's motives?
(a) Britta does not keep her cubicle neat.
(b) Britta fails to read letters.
(c) Britta will not speak to the other girls.
(d) Britta is always late.

8. What is one thing the girls want to see happen at the academy?
(a) No more locking them in the closet.
(b) Better food.
(c) A chance to interact with boys.
(d) Learning more artistic skills.

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

10. What does Miri learn about one block of linder?
(a) It can only be carved by someone with quarry-speech abilities.
(b) It is worth one gold coin.
(c) It is the densest matter in the land.
(d) It has strong healing properties.

11. What impresses Olana about the girls?
(a) The way the girls are so poised under pressure.
(b) Their reading skills are so much better.
(c) Their manners.
(d) Their use of Diplomacy.

12. What will Miri's Pa not let her do?
(a) Leave before her aunt and uncle arrive.
(b) Bake for her brother.
(c) Take her sister with her.
(d) Go to the Linder mines.

13. What scares Miri as she wakes?
(a) Her father yelling at someone.
(b) Trumpeting.
(c) The chickens squawking at a fox.
(d) Her sister screaming.

14. What gift does Miri receive from Peder?
(a) A rose carved out of linder.
(b) A bottle of linder dust.
(c) A poem carved into a linder tablet.
(d) A hawk carved out of linder.

15. What is Miri determined to do concerning Enrik?
(a) Convince him to hire her.
(b) Make him learn to read.
(c) Convince him to take her on his next journey.
(d) Trade with him.