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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Peder say about the prince and Miri?
(a) Peder says nothing about the prince and Miri.
(b) He hopes the prince will not choose Miri.
(c) The prince would be crazy not to choose Miri.
(d) The prince does not deserve Miri.

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

5. For what will the girls be punished at the academy?
(a) Not walking with correct posture.
(b) Laughing.
(c) Speaking out of turn.
(d) Eating too many sweets.

6. What do Miri and Marda decide not to do?
(a) Go with Pa to the festival.
(b) Go to the academy.
(c) Trade with Enrik again.
(d) Work the mines.

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

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

9. With whom does Miri discuss Olana's cruelty?
(a) Britta.
(b) Karta.
(c) Peder.
(d) Gerti.

10. Who does Olana decide will be allowed to go back to the village?
(a) Only the girls who do not pass the test.
(b) Only the girls who pass a test.
(c) Only those who are 12.
(d) Only those who are 17.

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

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

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

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

15. What does Peder say about quarry work?
(a) He thinks it can be executed more efficiently.
(b) He cannot imagine doing it for the rest of his life.
(c) He loves every second of it.
(d) He is sometimes bored with it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What have priests determined about Mount Eskel?

2. What does Miri present to Olana?

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

4. How does Britta manage to get out of working at the quarry?

5. Who are the girls told not to bother at the academy?

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