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

2. 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) Linder makes quarry-speech work.
(d) She wants to become a quarry worker.

3. How does Britta manage to get out of working at the quarry?
(a) She smashed her finger.
(b) She wants to work at the quarry.
(c) She acted deaf.
(d) She bribes the administrator.

4. What book does Miri pick up after the first one?
(a) A book of Tales.
(b) A book about etiquette.
(c) A book about raising children.
(d) A book about cooking.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the girls discuss on their way back to the academy?

2. What does Miri learn about one block of linder?

3. What will Miri's Pa not let her do?

4. What scares Miri as she wakes?

5. Why does Miri plan to go to the Linder mines at the opening to the book?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to Marda and how does this lead to Miri learning about why she is not allowed in the mines?

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

3. What do Bena and Liana think of the village boys and of what do they accuse Miri?

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

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

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

7. Where does Miri want to go and what does her pa say about it?

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

9. What does Miri continue to do each day, and how does that help her?

10. What do the girls do to tell the villagers about their experience in the academy so far and about what does Miri speak to Peder?

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