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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Miri want to work towards?
(a) Earning Peder's love.
(b) Learning as much as possible.
(c) Getting home as soon as possible.
(d) Being chosen as academy princess.

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

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

4. How do the girls tell a story for the village?
(a) They act it out as a play.
(b) They have chosen a narrator, who tells the story they all wrote.
(c) They sing a song they made up on the walk home.
(d) They each contribute a line.

5. Who is Olana Mansdaughter?
(a) Marda's best friend.
(b) The academy tutor.
(c) One of the girls who has to go to the academy.
(d) A woman Miri's pa might marry.

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

7. Who is Mardo?
(a) Miri's best friend.
(b) Miri's aunt.
(c) Miri's grandmother.
(d) Miri's sister.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Marda?

2. What is Miri not wanting to do in order to get her family a house?

3. What does Miri realize after sharing a memory with Peder?

4. When will the prince choose his bride?

5. How long has Miri been friends with Peder Doterson?

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