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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why does the village decide to raise linder prices?
(a) The village needs a new well.
(b) The village thinks nobles are getting rich off the linder.
(c) Because of what Miri learns in studying commerce.
(d) The supply is running low.

6. Who reminds Olanda about Miri?
(a) Gerti.
(b) Bena.
(c) No one.
(d) Britta.

7. Why are the soldiers dismissed?
(a) There haven't been any soldiers.
(b) They are needed back at the palace.
(c) They have been flirting too much with the girls.
(d) So the girls do not feel like prisoners.

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

9. What does Peder say mining linder is like?
(a) Like flowing in a white light of particles.
(b) Being inside a dark abyss.
(c) Like nothing else exists.
(d) Singing along with the mountain.

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

11. Where is the academy?
(a) On the top of Mount Eskel.
(b) In the lowlands.
(c) In the stone minister's house.
(d) Near the Dark Forest.

12. Who is Steffan?
(a) Britta's father.
(b) One of the village boys.
(c) The linder mine supervisor.
(d) The Prince.

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

14. What does Britta believe about the prince?
(a) He is mean.
(b) He will choose Kata.
(c) He will not see her in a room full of girls.
(d) He will not choose one of them as his wife.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who cannot get the image of a rat in the closet out of her mind?

2. In what does Miri take comfort?

3. What does Miri look forward to in the opening of Chapter 9?

4. Who is Britta?

5. Who is the only one able to read out loud one day in the classroom?

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