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

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

3. With whom does Miri decide to try out her quarry-speech?
(a) Karta.
(b) Britta.
(c) Olana.
(d) Gerti.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Pa try to prevent soldiers from doing?

2. How does Miri feel at the academy?

3. How old is Miri when her mother dies?

4. What is the status of Mount Eskel?

5. What is Miri determined to do concerning Enrik?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Miri explain to Britta about spring holiday and what do they talk about concerning quarry speech?

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

3. Why did Miri feel isolated from other girls her age and how is being at the academy changing that?

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

5. How does Miri decide to tell of her experience in the closet and how does that affect Gerti?

6. Who is Britta?

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

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

9. What conversation does Miri remember between her and Peder about linder?

10. What more does Miri learn about quarry-speech and Linder from Marda and her pa?

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