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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) The present the girls bought from the traders.
(b) An idea about a permanent academy.
(c) The girls' demands.
(d) Nothing.

2. Why does Miri dismiss Britta?
(a) She is a know it all.
(b) She acts coy.
(c) She is a lowlander.
(d) She stutters.

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

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

5. What happens to Marda?
(a) She is hurt in the mines.
(b) She is apprenticed to a potter.
(c) Nothing.
(d) She is apprenticed to a weaver.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Katar jealous?

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

3. Who is Steffan?

4. Why does the village decide to raise linder prices?

5. What does Miri think about as much as becoming a princess?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is linder and why has Miri not been allowed in the linder mines?

3. What are the results of the next test and of what does Bena accuse the fourteen-year-olds?

4. What is Miri's reaction to quarry speech?

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

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

7. Why is Miri sent to the closet and what is her experience there like?

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

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

10. What does Miri decide to do one day when the other girls go outside?

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