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

2. What does Miri believe about Liana and Bena?
(a) The boys like them better.
(b) They are prettier than she is.
(c) They don't like her.
(d) They are smarter than she is.

3. What does Peder say about the prince and Miri?
(a) Peder says nothing about the prince and Miri.
(b) The prince would be crazy not to choose Miri.
(c) The prince does not deserve Miri.
(d) He hopes the prince will not choose Miri.

4. What is Miri not wanting to do in order to get her family a house?
(a) Pretending to be deaf to the quarry speech.
(b) Give up a possibility of being the academy princess.
(c) Never work in the linder mines.
(d) Marry the prince.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who embarrasses Miri?

2. Why does Miri dismiss Britta?

3. What does Britta hope about the new princess?

4. What does Peder say about quarry work?

5. What impresses Olana about the girls?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Britta?

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

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

4. What more does Miri learn about quarry-speech and Linder from Marda and her pa?

5. Why does Olana punish Miri?

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

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

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

9. What does the King's messenger announce?

10. What does Pa try to do about Miri and the academy and what is the outcome?

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