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A Visitor in the Harper Hall Trivia Quiz

You're a visitor in the Harper Hall, and you keep running into a girl with a whole fair of fire lizards... An "interactive" and comical quiz set roughly during "Dragonsinger", a book by the very creative Anne McCaffrey. Good luck!

A multiple-choice quiz by diamondback1. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
diamondback1

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
280,579

Updated
Jul 23 22

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
7 / 10

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710

Awards
Top 20% Quiz

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Question 1 of 10

1. You arrive at the Harper Hall at night, tired (and considerably cranky). A woman named Silvina takes you to your quarters. How would it be accurate to describe this woman? Hint

Pale-skinned with large eyes and dark hair

Tan-skinned with large eyes and thick auburn hair

Pale-skinned with large eyes and thick auburn hair

Tan-skinned with large eyes and frizzy dark hair

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Question 2 of 10

2. You wake up a little late for your first day at the Harper Hall, and decide to get some breakfast. In the kitchen, you are offered plenty of cereal and a breakfast drink, of a type that is mentioned repeatedly throughout the series. What is this drink called?

Answer: (One Word)

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Question 3 of 10

3. You take your food out into the corner of a nearby courtyard, not wanting to be in the noisy hubbub of the kitchens. To your surprise, however, someone is already there-a teenage girl with a queen fire lizard! As you stare in jealous awe, a whole fair of fire lizards swarm the girl and the kitchen drudge helping her. How many fire lizards are there, and how many of each color? Hint

Nine; one gold, three bronzes, two browns, a blue and two greens

Nine; one gold, three browns, two bronzes, two greens and a blue

Eight; one gold, three greens, two browns, a blue and a green

Eight; one gold, two greens, two bronzes, two browns and a blue

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Question 4 of 10

4. When you come back, there's an apprentice-pretty small, and kind of mischievous-looking, with tight black curls-trying to beg something from one of the cooks. What kind of food is he (likely) after? Hint

Tubers

Wherry meat

Redfruit

Bubbly pies

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Question 5 of 10

5. It's gather day! You're wandering around, simply enjoying the sights, when a perfectly outrageous fight erupts right next to you. You duck out of the way, noting with astonishment the many ranks of the fighters-everyone from wealthy, privileged girls, to the black-haired boy from earlier, to fosterlings of Lord Groghe's...even the teenage girl with the fire lizards. What stall are they brawling in front of? Hint

The Baker's Stall

The Tanner's Stall

The Smithcrafter's Stall

They're in the dancing pavilion, not in front of a stall at all

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Question 6 of 10

6. After a moment, who joins the brawl? (Here's a hint-it wasn't you.) Hint

The man who owns the stall

A drudge from the kitchens and a mass of fire lizards

The man who owns the opposite stall and his blue fire lizard

The man who owns the stall, a mass of fire lizards, and a drudge from the kitchens

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Question 7 of 10

7. The fight seems to be breaking up, so you head on over to the stall they were in front of, your eye on something the the dealer has for sale. To your complete disgust, the man gives it to the girl before you get there. What was it? Hint

A beautiful blue hide

A blue belt with a fire lizard buckle

Blue Harper boots, lined with soft hide

New blue slippers

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Question 8 of 10

8. You stomp off, and go sulk over the meat rolls you brought for a snack. Then, suddenly, you hear music in the square! After a while, the teenage girl with the fire lizards starts singing. What is the second song she sings? Hint

The Fire Lizard Song

The Ballad of Moreta's Ride

One of the teaching songs

An old sea song

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Question 9 of 10

9. Before the girl got up to perform, two fire lizards started singing, so beautifully it sent chills down your spine. Only one of the fire lizards, however, was hers-so who did the other lizard belong to? Hint

Sebell

Lord Groghe

The Masterharper

Lord Meron

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Question 10 of 10

10. Two days later, the teenage girl (it drives you insane how she always seems to be in the middle of things) is raised to the next "rank" in the Harper Hall. When one does this, it is called what? Hint

Stomping the yard

Walking the tables

Singing your song

Getting tapped

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. You arrive at the Harper Hall at night, tired (and considerably cranky). A woman named Silvina takes you to your quarters. How would it be accurate to describe this woman?

Answer: Pale-skinned with large eyes and dark hair

Silvina is the kindly Headwoman at the Harper Hall who escorts Menolly to her lodgings on the girl's first night. The Headwoman continues to act as a mentor throughout the book, helping to provide for Menolly and make her feel at home. Silvina is also a friend of Robinton, the Masterharper.

Answer: klah

Klah is a coffee-like drink that is normally served hot. It is made from the bark of the klah tree and is usually drunk as a stimulative.

Answer: Nine; one gold, three browns, two bronzes, two greens and a blue

The gold fire lizard is named Beauty; the bronzes are Rocky and Diver; the three browns are Brownie, Mimic, and Lazy; the greens are Auntie One and Auntie Two; and the blue is Uncle. Menolly certainly had plenty to name!

Answer: Bubbly pies

Tubers are a potato-like type of plant that Piemur (the apprentice I described) hates. Wherries are carnivorous animals a bit like big birds; only instead of having two legs, they have four. Redfruit is odd-shaped, tangy fruit from the tree of the same name.

Answer: The Tanner's Stall

Pona, a wealthy girl who acts as the main antagonist in Dragonsinger, starts an argument by accusing Menolly of stealing. Menolly, who was given the money in question by the Masterharper, takes offense to this, and "claims insult" on Pona. Unfortunately, Pona has no intention of backing down, and instead demands that her boyfriend take the coin from Menolly, at which point the actual fight erupts.

6. After a moment, who joins the brawl? (Here's a hint-it wasn't you.)

Answer: A drudge from the kitchens and a mass of fire lizards

The drudge was Camo, a mentally-handicapped friend of Menolly's who helped her feed her fire lizards from the start of the book. He charged into the fist fight, but was really no help to his friends due to his over enthusiasm-in fact, at one point he accidentally clouts Menolly across the head, having mistaken her for a foe.

Answer: A blue belt with a fire lizard buckle

Piemur manages to mortify Menolly by informing the tanner that "her slippers are a disgrace", and that she'd like to buy some new ones. In fact, this was only a bargaining ruse-Piemur thought it wiser not to let on immediately that Menolly was only interested in the fire lizard belt.

However, in the end Piemur's dickering tactics didn't matter, because after the brawl, the tanner gives it to Menolly free of charge (in admiration for the black eye she gave Pona's boyfriend.) Go figure!

Answer: An old sea song

"The Fire Lizard Song" was the first song that Menolly sang, not the second! She does sing the "Ballad of Moreta's Ride" several times in the story-including to her voice instructor, Shonagar-but not here. Menolly also sings a number of unspecified teaching songs at different points in the story-line.

Answer: Lord Groghe

Lord Groghe is the Lord Holder Fort Hold. He is also grandfather of Pona, the wealthy female student who gives Menolly so much grief throughout Dragonsinger. However, despite Menolly's worries that Pona will carry false tales to Groghe, the Lord Holder hold Menolly no grudge-especially after, thanks to her, his queen fire lizard Merga learns to sing!

Answer: Walking the tables

It took Menolly only a week to rise from apprentice to journeywoman. Of course, she had been essentially apprenticed to Petiron (the harper at her old hold) for years, so she was more than qualified musically. She also wrote several extremely talented songs during the course of Dragonsinger, which probably helped her get the promotion.

Source: Author diamondback1

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