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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. Why does the tutor expect Britta to lead the class?
(a) She is the oldest.
(b) She is the prettiest.
(c) She is the most well educated.
(d) She is a true Danlander.

2. How do the girls tell a story for the village?
(a) They have chosen a narrator, who tells the story they all wrote.
(b) They each contribute a line.
(c) They act it out as a play.
(d) They sing a song they made up on the walk home.

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

4. Who is Mardo?
(a) Miri's sister.
(b) Miri's aunt.
(c) Miri's best friend.
(d) Miri's grandmother.

5. With what does Miri experiment as she thinks about what Peder says mining linder is like?
(a) Quarry-speech.
(b) Singing her reading lessons.
(c) Reading backwards.
(d) Feeling the vibrations in the stone at the academy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the girls think is a fitting punishment?

2. Whose hand does Miri take as she is walking to the academy?

3. What scares Miri as she wakes?

4. What do Bena and Liana think of the village boys?

5. What does Miri realize about quarry-speech?

Short Essay Questions

1. What conversation does Miri remember between her and Peder about linder?

2. What do Marda and Miri do and what does Miri tell Marda she wants to do?

3. What is linder and why has Miri not been allowed in the linder mines?

4. Why does Olana punish Miri?

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

6. What happens when Miri tries to be a trader?

7. What does Miri hear some other girls discussing about her, and what does Miri think?

8. What more does Miri learn about quarry-speech and Linder from Marda and her pa?

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

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

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