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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Olana claim about the cottage in a picture she shows the girls?
(a) It is where Olana was born.
(b) It is where the last princess was born.
(c) That the painting was done by the prince.
(d) The successful girl's family will receive the cottage.

2. 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 beau some breakfast.
(c) To prepare for the traders' arrival.
(d) To take her brother some breakfast.

3. What does Miri realize after sharing a memory with Peder?
(a) She loves Peder.
(b) She does not want to go back to the academy.
(c) She wants to become a quarry worker.
(d) Linder makes quarry-speech work.

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

5. What does Miri think about as much as becoming a princess?
(a) Commerce.
(b) Peder.
(c) Her mother's letters which she can now read.
(d) Quarry-speech.

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

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

8. What is Miri determined to do concerning Enrik?
(a) Convince him to take her on his next journey.
(b) Convince him to hire her.
(c) Trade with him.
(d) Make him learn to read.

9. Who cannot get the image of a rat in the closet out of her mind?
(a) Olana.
(b) Miri.
(c) Gerti.
(d) Britta.

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

11. What does Enrik refuse?
(a) To trade with Peder.
(b) To give Miri what she asks for the trade.
(c) To trade with Miri's pa.
(d) To stop at the village.

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

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

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

15. What do the girls think is a fitting punishment?
(a) Writing an extra assignment.
(b) Helping the cook kitchen.
(c) Standing at the back of the classroom.
(d) Missing a meal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Miri and Marda decide not to do?

2. What does Peder say Miri does not have to do while using quarry-speech?

3. Why does the village decide to raise linder prices?

4. What subject does Miri spend extra time studying?

5. What does Britta admit about her working in the quarry?

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