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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Miri attempt to read one day?
(a) The History of Danland.
(b) A letter her mother wrote.
(c) A story about the prince's birth.
(d) The History of the Highlands.

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

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

4. Who is the only one able to read out loud one day in the classroom?
(a) Miri.
(b) Britta.
(c) Greti.
(d) No one.

5. What do the girls discuss on their way back to the academy?
(a) Buying a thank-present for Olana.
(b) The village boys.
(c) Strategy.
(d) Who will be chosen to be the prince's bride.

6. Why is Miri embarrassed at the celebration?
(a) She forgets what the price of the linder block is.
(b) She spills a drink on her dress.
(c) She falls asleep at the fire.
(d) Peder asks her to dance.

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

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

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

10. Where does Miri continue practicing reading?
(a) In a small cave she finds.
(b) The library.
(c) In a tree she climbs.
(d) The bedchamber.

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

12. Why does Miri plan to go to the Linder mines at the opening to the book?
(a) To see what the new work schedule is.
(b) To take her brother some breakfast.
(c) To take her beau some breakfast.
(d) To prepare for the traders' arrival.

13. Who embarrasses Miri?
(a) Marda.
(b) Her pa.
(c) Peder.
(d) One of the soldiers.

14. Who is Britta?
(a) The village wisdom.
(b) The village weaver.
(c) A girl who is new to the village.
(d) A lowlander who has been living on the mountain.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Miri hide the book she is reading?

2. What do the girls think is a fitting punishment?

3. For what will the girls be punished at the academy?

4. Who does Olana decide will be allowed to go back to the village?

5. What does Britta hope about the new princess?

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