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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 can give Heralds a headache?
(a) Trying to communicate with a companion that is not their own.
(b) Using their gifts incorrectly.
(c) Using their gifts too much.
(d) Communicating mind to mind with other Heralds.

2. What does Talia learn about Ylsa?
(a) Ylsa is quite ill and in a crofter's home.
(b) Talia cannot reach Ylsa.
(c) Ylsa is almost back to the Collegium.
(d) Ylsa is being ambused and killed at that moment.

3. What is one thing that helps improve Elspeth's attitude toward companions?
(a) She assists in the birth of a new companion.
(b) Talia does a mental cleansing on Elspeth.
(c) She rides Rolan every day.
(d) She reads children's stories about companions who have saved children.

4. Who is sentenced to death?
(a) A man who kills his family.
(b) Two nobles who were plotting against the Queen.
(c) Two highway robbers who kill Ylsa.
(d) No one as the death penalty is not allowed.

5. Who comes in to guard Talia to relieve the Herald who is guarding her?
(a) Selenay.
(b) Skif.
(c) Tarus.
(d) Shan.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when the students return from Midwinter Festival?

2. What causes Elspeth's bratty personality to change?

3. Who is instrumental in getting rid of Hulda?

4. What does Talia want for Elspeth?

5. For whom does Talia mourn?

Short Essay Questions

1. What subject does Sherrill broach with Talia before Sherrill leaves on her first assignment?

2. Why is Skif dressed in black one night and why does Talia do the same?

3. What does Talia ask Skif to do and how does she rescue him?

4. How does the Queen retrieve the arrows that killed Ylsa?

5. How does Talia learn about Ylsa's death?

6. What other gifts does it appear Talia possesses?

7. What happens to demonstrate that the harassing has gone beyond school kids' pranks?

8. How does Talia learn what one of her major her gifts is?

9. How is Talia's life at the Collegium three years after her arrival?

10. What does Talia learn about Hulda's actions concerning Elspeth?

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