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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What word makes Miri exchange the book she is reading for another book?

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

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

4. What does Miri want to see in the lowlands?

5. For what is Marda too old?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the girls' first day at the academy.

2. What is linder and why has Miri not been allowed in the linder mines?

3. Describe Miri's conversation with Knut and how does that lead to Miri discovering the price of linder.

4. Why does Olana punish Miri?

5. What does Miri hear some other girls discussing about her, and what does Miri think?

6. What happens when Miri tries to be a trader?

7. What startles Miri awake one morning and why is she unsettled?

8. What does Miri wonder about what Pa thinks about Marda not attending the academy?

9. What does Miri receive from Peder and what is her reaction?

10. How does Miri get all the girls to leave for spring holiday and how does that change the girls' attitude towards Miri?

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