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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 was the Masterharper seemingly disappointed about?

2. Where does Silvina ask Menolly if she has clothes from?

3. What does Camo hold for the people headed out of the Harpers Craft Hall?

4. What had made Dunca 'incensed'?

5. What did Sebell thank Menolly for?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Menolly become angry after Lord Groghe left?

2. What worried Menolly in regards to Sebell's desire to learn how to sail?

3. How does Menolly react to being summoned? How is this indicative of how she has been treated?

4. Why did Menolly cry insult from Pona? How did Sebell react to this?

5. How did Menolly react to having two whole marks to herself?

6. How did the Masterharper prepare for a situation that Sebell did not?

7. What favors had Menolly done the Masterharper and Sebell that day?

8. What actually happened at Benden Weyr?

9. How did Menolly believe she had erred after playing with the three Harpers?

10. Why couldn't Sebell give the Masterharper the queen fire lizard?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the insatiable envy of the people of the Harpers Hall for Menolly and her way of life. How is her way of life a happy accident, and therefore nothing to be proud of? What kinds of things might they not have envied if they would have known her past?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the underlying sexist theme in this novel. In what aspect is feminism played up by Pona and her group? Why doesn't Menolly fit in with the group? What does it that Pona and her group really offer the world of Harpers? Use quotes to support your answer.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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