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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Miri feel at the academy?
(a) Happy to be learning.
(b) Isolated from the other girls.
(c) Depressed because she misses her dog.
(d) Excited at the new friends she is making.

2. Why can't lowlanders hear quarry-speech?
(a) They do not have enough shared memories.
(b) They do not have quarry dust in their blood.
(c) They can hear quarry-speech..
(d) They do not have the genetic traits.

3. What happens when Olana catches Miri returning a book?
(a) Miri has to stay in the closet.
(b) Olana offers to help Miri read better.
(c) Miri has to admit her deed to the class.
(d) Miri has to leave the academy.

4. What do Miri and Marda decide not to do?
(a) Go with Pa to the festival.
(b) Go to the academy.
(c) Trade with Enrik again.
(d) Work the mines.

5. In what does Miri take comfort?
(a) That the academy is only a couple weeks long.
(b) That Katar is unable to read.
(c) That the academy is so close to her home.
(d) Thinking about the princess gown.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Peder say about quarry work?

2. Who is Mardo?

3. What scares Miri as she wakes?

4. What does Enrik refuse?

5. What is the village's only natural resource?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the results of the next test and of what does Bena accuse the fourteen-year-olds?

2. What does Miri receive from Peder and what is her reaction?

3. What does Miri continue to do each day, and how does that help her?

4. How does Miri use Diplomacy when they return to the academy and what is Olana's response?

5. Where does Miri want to go and what does her pa say about it?

6. Describe the girls' first day at the academy.

7. What happens to Marda and how does this lead to Miri learning about why she is not allowed in the mines?

8. What do Miri and Britta share at the council meeting, and what is the result?

9. How does Miri decide to tell of her experience in the closet and how does that affect Gerti?

10. What does Miri decide to do one day when the other girls go outside?

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