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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. In what does Miri take comfort?
(a) That the academy is only a couple weeks long.
(b) That Katar is unable to read.
(c) Thinking about the princess gown.
(d) That the academy is so close to her home.

2. What will Miri's Pa not let her do?
(a) Take her sister with her.
(b) Leave before her aunt and uncle arrive.
(c) Go to the Linder mines.
(d) Bake for her brother.

3. With what animal does Miri experiment?
(a) Horse.
(b) Rat.
(c) Cat.
(d) Dog.

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

5. What are the ages of the girls who must attend an academy?
(a) 12-17.
(b) 12-21.
(c) 10-21.
(d) 5-15.

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 Miri dismiss Britta?

4. What is Doter good at doing?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Britta?

2. What do Marda and Miri do and what does Miri tell Marda she wants to do?

3. How does Miri use Diplomacy when they return to the academy and what is Olana's response?

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

5. How does Miri discover that Britta cannot hear quarry speech?

6. What do Miri and Britta share at the council meeting, and what is the result?

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

8. What does the King's messenger announce?

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

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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