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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Bethan suggests that the three girls should stop including a baby in their pretending games due to what reason?
(a) Because they have not been trained in caring for infants.
(b) Because a fairy may overhear and try to take the baby.
(c) Because she mother says it is bad luck.
(d) Because it is getting dark and they need to get home.

2. Until what age had Einar been raised by someone other than his father?
(a) Twelve.
(b) Eight.
(c) Six.
(d) Ten.

3. For what has Alys always yearned?
(a) A son.
(b) A cat.
(c) A daughter.
(d) A rabbit.

4. Who had kept Einar's father from flinging his infant body into the fire on the day of Einar's birth?
(a) Tall Andras.
(b) Old Benedikt.
(c) Alys.
(d) Bryn.

5. What object does Claire use for her stair-stepping exercises?
(a) A log.
(b) Alys's porch.
(c) A rock.
(d) A stump.

6. How had Einar's mother died?
(a) She had fallen off a cliff.
(b) She had contracted pneumonia.
(c) She had died in childbirth with Einar.
(d) She had been murdered by Einar's father.

7. What does Einar mean when he tells Claire that he had been a wife to his father "in other ways too terrible to mention"? (206).
(a) He had cooked for his father.
(b) His father had sexually abused him.
(c) He had cleaned the house for his father.
(d) He had arranged social activities for his father.

8. What is the most severe injury Claire receives as a result of the bird attack?
(a) A gash in her arm that reaches the bone.
(b) An eye swollen shut.
(c) A broken arm.
(d) A cut on her neck.

9. From whom had Alys inherited her carved wooden trunk?
(a) Her father.
(b) Her grandmother.
(c) Her aunt.
(d) Her mother.

10. To whose house do the villagers take Claire when they have pulled her from the water?
(a) Old Benedikt.
(b) Einar.
(c) Alys.
(d) Tall Andras.

11. Alys and Old Benedikt tell Tall Andras that Claire cannot be wed until what condition is met?
(a) The leader of the village gives his consent.
(b) Claire's parents are located.
(c) He proves to be a good provider.
(d) Claire has regained her memory.

12. Einar tells Claire that he thinks it may be better to climb out in search of something rather than for what other reason?
(a) Loving what one is leaving.
(b) Leaving out of desperation.
(c) Leaving out of boredom.
(d) Hating what one is leaving.

13. What quality of the villagers' discovery of Claire is one they have never experienced before?
(a) They have never seen a girl with blue eyes.
(b) They have never seen a girl with such pale skin.
(c) No newcomer has ever appeared in the village.
(d) They have never seen a girl with red hair.

14. What gift does Einar give to Claire once she is well enough to receive gifts?
(a) A straw hat.
(b) A rosebush.
(c) A kitten.
(d) A basket of raspberries.

15. When Claire feels she has mastered the running of the hillside path, what does Einar do to make the task more difficult?
(a) He tells her to run a more difficult path.
(b) He tells her to take off her shoes.
(c) He ties her hands together.
(d) He tells her to run backwards.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Alys feed Claire upon Claire's arrival in the village?

2. What does Claire do with the signalling rock before she throws it down to Einar?

3. What word do Bethan, Delwyth, and Eira use during their pretend tea party that is wholly unfamiliar to Claire?

4. To whom does Einar's father send Einar when his arm is broken after his fall from the fishing boat's mast?

5. What do the villagers call the act of leaving the village?

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