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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. When will the prince choose his bride?
(a) When he becomes king.
(b) His father chooses the bride.
(c) In one year.
(d) He does not get to choose; the priests do.

2. What does Miri think about as much as becoming a princess?
(a) Her mother's letters which she can now read.
(b) Quarry-speech.
(c) Peder.
(d) Commerce.

3. Where is Enrik's home?
(a) In the Linder forest.
(b) The lowlands.
(c) Up in the mountains.
(d) A village on the ocean.

4. Why does Miri plan to go to the Linder mines at the opening to the book?
(a) To prepare for the traders' arrival.
(b) To take her beau some breakfast.
(c) To take her brother some breakfast.
(d) To see what the new work schedule is.

5. What does Miri realize about quarry-speech?
(a) It uses memories to carry messages.
(b) It is not real.
(c) It works mind to mind.
(d) It uses mental images to convey messages.

Short Answer Questions

1. What makes the girls feel small and insignificant?

2. What does Peder say Miri does not have to do while using quarry-speech?

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

4. For what will the girls be punished at the academy?

5. What is the village's only natural resource?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Olana punish Miri?

3. What does the King's messenger announce?

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Who is Britta?

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