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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. When will the prince choose his bride?
(a) When he becomes king.
(b) He does not get to choose; the priests do.
(c) His father chooses the bride.
(d) In one year.

2. What does Pa try to prevent soldiers from doing?
(a) Talking rough in front of his daughters.
(b) Taking Miri.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Taking more of their grain than necessary for their horses.

3. What have priests determined about Mount Eskel?
(a) It is in danger from a possible volcanic eruption.
(b) It is the site of the first landing of their peoples.
(c) The prince's bride will come from there.
(d) That it is in danger of a plague.

4. What do the girls discuss on their way back to the academy?
(a) Who will be chosen to be the prince's bride.
(b) The village boys.
(c) Buying a thank-present for Olana.
(d) Strategy.

5. What does Britta believe about the prince?
(a) He will choose Kata.
(b) He will not see her in a room full of girls.
(c) He will not choose one of them as his wife.
(d) He is mean.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Miri present to Olana?

2. Who is Britta?

3. What is the village's only natural resource?

4. With whom does Miri bond?

5. In what does Miri take comfort?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does the King's messenger announce?

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

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

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

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

9. What do Miri and Britta share at the council meeting, and what is the result?

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

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