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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Why did Miri's Ma not want her to be named Linder?
(a) She wanted Miri to be named Linder.
(b) It is her great-aunt's name whom she dislikes.
(c) She didn't want her daughter named after a stone.
(d) She hates that family.

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

5. Why does Miri hide the book she is reading?
(a) Her pa is outside needing to speak to her.
(b) Olana comes into the classroom.
(c) The prince comes into the classroom.
(d) Another student comes into the classroom.

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

7. Who does Miri overhear speaking about her in the evening?
(a) Bena, Katar and Britta.
(b) Katar and Britta.
(c) Bena, Liana and Katar.
(d) Britta and Liana.

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

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

10. Who reminds Olanda about Miri?
(a) Gerti.
(b) Britta.
(c) No one.
(d) Bena.

11. What happens to Marda?
(a) She is apprenticed to a potter.
(b) She is hurt in the mines.
(c) Nothing.
(d) She is apprenticed to a weaver.

12. What does Olana never let the girls forget?
(a) They are less than citizens in Danland.
(b) They will never be able to live in their village again and be happy.
(c) Olana sacrificed a year of her life to help them.
(d) One will someday be queen.

13. What is Miri not wanting to do in order to get her family a house?
(a) Marry the prince.
(b) Never work in the linder mines.
(c) Pretending to be deaf to the quarry speech.
(d) Give up a possibility of being the academy princess.

14. Why is Katar jealous?
(a) That Britta can read out loud.
(b) That Britta gets to meet with the prince by herself.
(c) That Miri can read out loud.
(d) That Greti can read out loud.

15. With what animal does Miri experiment?
(a) Horse.
(b) Cat.
(c) Dog.
(d) Rat.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Olana put Gerti in the closet?

2. What subject does Miri spend extra time studying?

3. What is Doter good at doing?

4. Why do the girls blame Miri that they cannot go home?

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

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