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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which Master was hard on Menolly?

2. What instruments did Menolly play?

3. What are the names of the green fire lizards?

4. Why did Menolly wince?

5. What did the Masterharper want Menolly to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was strange to Menolly about the closings on the doors?

2. Why does Menolly sigh when Piemur explains what it means to 'walk the tables'?

3. Why couldn't Menolly run away from the throng of people?

4. Why did Menolly wish that she could go between?

5. Who was supposed to give Menolly her first lesson for the day, and how was she to have been told?

6. In what way was Dunca's reaction to Menolly feeding her fire lizards hypocritical?

7. Where does Pona's uncle suggest that the weyrmen should be going?

8. What seems to be the attitude of Master Morshal's opinion of women as harpers?

9. What did Menolly observe about the way people ate at the dining hall?

10. Why was Menolly's arrival at the Harper Craft Hall a triumphal success?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How did Menolly view life in a Harper Hall, and how was it in actuality, different? How is this an open expression by the author of Menolly's innocence? How is her view of the Harper hall in actuality, and what does this represent? In what way is Menolly's outlook still very innocent?

Essay Topic 2

How did Robinton react to the hatching of his fire lizard? What did he learn from it, and how could it pose as a great boon to him? How is this a whole new world for him, and yet how can it serve him within the confines of Masterharper?

Essay Topic 3

Describe how Menolly's loyalty to the Masterharper and to Journeyman Sebell manifests itself in chapter eight. In what way does she prove where her loyalties lie? How does her explanation to the events that occurred during the fire lizards Impression put an end to all of the rumors?

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