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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Pa try to prevent soldiers from doing?
(a) Taking Miri.
(b) Talking rough in front of his daughters.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Taking more of their grain than necessary for their horses.

2. How old is Miri when her mother dies?
(a) 6 months.
(b) 10 years.
(c) 1 week.
(d) 3 years.

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

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

5. Why does Katar step in at the last minute?
(a) Self interest.
(b) To impress one of the village boys who walked to the academy with the girls.
(c) She feels sorry for Olana.
(d) She feels sorry for Miri.

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

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

8. What does Peder say Miri does not have to do while using quarry-speech?
(a) Voice the words.
(b) Move in circles.
(c) Pound out a rhythm.
(d) Stand.

9. What does Miri realize about quarry-speech?
(a) It works mind to mind.
(b) It uses memories to carry messages.
(c) It is not real.
(d) It uses mental images to convey messages.

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 the densest matter in the land.
(c) It has strong healing properties.
(d) It is worth one gold coin.

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

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

13. What does Miri discover about Britta?
(a) She is deathly afraid of going down in the linder mine.
(b) Olana is her aunt.
(c) She is in love with a boy from another country.
(d) She was able to read before starting at the academy.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Miri present to Olana?

2. What does Miri doubt she could do when she is musing about the prince?

3. What does Miri say about Enrik?

4. Why does Miri wonder about Britta's motives?

5. What is the village's only natural resource?

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