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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 want to work towards?
(a) Learning as much as possible.
(b) Getting home as soon as possible.
(c) Earning Peder's love.
(d) Being chosen as academy princess.

2. What impresses Olana about the girls?
(a) The way the girls are so poised under pressure.
(b) Their use of Diplomacy.
(c) Their manners.
(d) Their reading skills are so much better.

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

4. What does Miri look forward to in the opening of Chapter 9?
(a) Spring holiday.
(b) Fall holiday.
(c) Summer holiday.
(d) Solstice holiday.

5. What do the girls think is a fitting punishment?
(a) Helping the cook kitchen.
(b) Standing at the back of the classroom.
(c) Writing an extra assignment.
(d) Missing a meal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Miri want to tell the village?

2. What does Peder say mining linder is like?

3. Who does Olana decide will be allowed to go back to the village?

4. Why does Miri wonder about Britta's motives?

5. Why do the girls blame Miri that they cannot go home?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the King's messenger announce?

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

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

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

6. Who is Britta?

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

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

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

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

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