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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. How does Miri feel at the academy?
(a) Happy to be learning.
(b) Depressed because she misses her dog.
(c) Isolated from the other girls.
(d) Excited at the new friends she is making.

2. Why does the village decide to raise linder prices?
(a) The village needs a new well.
(b) Because of what Miri learns in studying commerce.
(c) The supply is running low.
(d) The village thinks nobles are getting rich off the linder.

3. Why does Olana put Gerti in the closet?
(a) For eating too much at dinner.
(b) For whispering when Britta is speaking.
(c) For speaking out of turn.
(d) For gossiping.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the status of Mount Eskel?

2. What does Olana offer as a prize?

3. What does Miri believe about Liana and Bena?

4. What does Pa say about linder?

5. What is Miri not wanting to do in order to get her family a house?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Britta?

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

3. Describe Miri's conversation with Knut and how does that lead to Miri discovering the price of linder.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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