2. What do Bena and Katar do during testing?
(a) Try to cheat off Miri's work.
(b) Sleep.
(c) Try to make Miri feel secure about the testing.
(d) Try to distract Miri.

3. Why do the bandits stay in the school?
(a) Awaiting more men.
(b) Awaiting their leader's arrival.
(c) It is a comfortable place to spend the winter.
(d) Waiting for the winter storm to abate.

4. What do the girls realize?
(a) The bandits will leave if they get the jewels in the cellar.
(b) The bandits are murderers also.
(c) The prince will return eventually and rescue them.
(d) No one will be coming to help them.

5. What does Britti say she does not know about the prince?
(a) If he would be a good husband.
(b) If he will recognize her as the servant to a noble family.
(c) If he really approves of this academy.
(d) If he loves her.

6. What do the girls talk about one day after class concerning why they were at the academy?
(a) If the prince will actually return.
(b) If they really want to be a princess.
(c) If the academy was some sort of ruse.
(d) If the prince will help their village.

7. What does Miri ask Olana to do?
(a) Care for Britta.
(b) Help the prince see each girl clearly.
(c) Delay the prince for another day until Britta is better.
(d) Nothing.

8. What does Miri hear from Esa in quarry speech?
(a) To go after Peder.
(b) To wait there for her.
(c) To go after the prince.
(d) To run.

9. What does Olana blame on the girls?
(a) The departure of the prince.
(b) That the prince told Olana to work on their dance skills.
(c) The failure of the prince to choose.
(d) The way Olana was treated by the nobles accompanying the prince.

10. What does Miri begin to relate?
(a) A story about bandits being chased out of Mount Eskel.
(b) A story about the ghosts around the area that punish wrongdoers.
(c) A story about a dead princess who kills bandits.
(d) Nothing; she is gagged.

11. What do the traders bring each time they come to the village?
(a) Bad manners.
(b) Greed.
(c) More and more refined goods.
(d) News.

12. What worries Esa concerning the prince?
(a) He will dismiss choosing her because of her injured arm.
(b) He will not want any of the girls.
(c) He will choose based on looks alone.
(d) He will know about her dubious family background.

13. What do the girls say about the prince?
(a) They say he is not really going to come there.
(b) They say he is cruel.
(c) They say he is very handsome.
(d) They do not talk about him.

14. What does the prince say when Miri asks him about his demeanor?
(a) He thinks the academy thing was a bad idea.
(b) He loves someone already.
(c) He is overwhelmed.
(d) He wants to fall in love with whomever will be his wife.

15. With what does Dan threaten Miri if another incident occurs?
(a) Being left out in the cold.
(b) Death.
(c) He will kill a different girl each time there is an incident.
(d) Being used by the bandits as a slave.