View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Miri continue practicing reading?
(a) The bedchamber.
(b) The library.
(c) In a tree she climbs.
(d) In a small cave she finds.

2. Who embarrasses Miri?
(a) Peder.
(b) Marda.
(c) Her pa.
(d) One of the soldiers.

3. Who are the girls told not to bother at the academy?
(a) The stone cutters.
(b) No one.
(c) The priest.
(d) Knut.

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

5. With whom does Miri discuss Olana's cruelty?
(a) Britta.
(b) Karta.
(c) Gerti.
(d) Peder.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Peder say about quarry work?

3. What is Miri determined to do concerning Enrik?

4. What is the status of Mount Eskel?

5. What does Miri want to see in the lowlands?

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

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

4. 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?

5. What happens when Miri tries to be a trader?

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

7. What did Pa want to name Miri and why didn't he do so?

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 766 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample