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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has been brought to the Edifice from Annabella's cott?
(a) Annabella's dog.
(b) Annabella's blue flowers.
(c) Nothing.
(d) All of Annabella's dyeing materials.

2. Which character once attempted to kill Christopher?
(a) Jamison.
(b) Kira's father.
(c) Vandara.
(d) Annabella.

3. While learning the plants used to create cloth dyes, what has Kira also been learning?
(a) How to carve.
(b) How to sing.
(c) How to tell the future.
(d) How to read.

4. What does Jamison expect Kira to tell everyone with her needle and thread?
(a) Her story.
(b) Whatever the guardians say.
(c) The future.
(d) The past.

5. What is Matt's "big" gift for Kira in Chapter 21?
(a) Annabella.
(b) A pot of blue dye.
(c) A bag of seeds.
(d) Her father, Christopher.

6. How does Matt describe the people he met on his journey?
(a) Broken, but quiet and nice.
(b) Dark and mysterious.
(c) Tall and powerful.
(d) Joyful and strong.

7. What frightens Kira as the Ruin song resumes after lunch?
(a) Thomas disappears.
(b) She recognizes the source of the mysterious sound.
(c) Matt disappears.
(d) She sees Annabella in the crowd.

8. Who visits Kira in her room after she returns from her exploration of the lower floor of the Edifice?
(a) Matt.
(b) Annabella.
(c) Jamison.
(d) Christopher.

9. How did Kira's father end up in the Field of Leaving?
(a) He was attacked and dragged forcibly to the Field.
(b) He woke up in the Field after falling during a hunt.
(c) He limped to the Field after being injured.
(d) He was mauled by a beast and left for dead in the Field.

10. What comment does Marlena make about Jo?
(a) Her songs were not only beautiful, but prophetic.
(b) She is Jo's sister.
(c) Jo's parents had too many children to keep.
(d) She was born a prophet.

11. In the beginning of Chapter 17, how long has Matt been missing?
(a) Two days.
(b) Two weeks.
(c) A month.
(d) Nine days.

12. At the beginning of Chapter 13, whose voice do Kira and her friends hear speaking harshly in the lower floor of the Edifice?
(a) An unknown man's voice.
(b) Jamison's voice.
(c) Christopher's voice.
(d) Annabella's voice.

13. How does Matt's mother react to her son's absence?
(a) She is glad he is gone.
(b) She is mourning the loss of her son.
(c) She didn't know he was missing.
(d) She begs Thomas to find Matt.

14. What political office was Kira's father to be appointed to before his "death"?
(a) Keeper of the Staff.
(b) Keeper of the Song.
(c) The Village Council.
(d) The Council of Guardians.

15. Why isn't Kira allowed to watch over Annabella's body in the Field of Leaving?
(a) She cannot travel outside the Edifice until after the Ruin Song.
(b) Matt is already in the Field watching over Annabella.
(c) Jamison tells her she doesn't have time to spare.
(d) Jamison tells her she will be tainted for the ceremony.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 16, what is Jo doing in her room when Thomas and Kira find her?

2. Where does Christopher ask Kira to go?

3. What does Thomas finish in Chapter 18?

4. What is unusual about Christopher's village?

5. According to Matt, where is Jo from?

(see the answer keys)

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