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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. What instruments did Menolly play?
2. What did Master Shonagar find interesting regarding what Petiron had taught her?
3. What is the problem of the girls?
4. How were girls treated at the Harper Hall?
5. Who wishes he could feed the fire lizards?
Short Essay Questions
1. Where does Pona's uncle suggest that the weyrmen should be going?
2. How did all the other Masters aside from Master Morshal treat Menolly?
3. Why did Menolly find little to criticize in the fire lizards' singing?
4. Why did Menolly berate herself in her previous Hold?
5. What seems to be the attitude of Master Morshal's opinion of women as harpers?
6. Why didn't Menolly continue talking to the obviously friendly Audiva?
7. Why would the fire lizards eat pretty much any time?
8. How did Menolly imagine life in the Harper Hall?
9. What startled Menolly about the way Master Jerint was addressed by the stocky man who was wearing faded journeyman's markings?
10. Why was rehearsal usually fun?
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
Menolly uses music not as a hobby but a way of life. How is it essential to her being? How would she fare without the influence of music in her life? What might have happened to her if she would have remained at the Half Circle Hold?
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