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1. "Drummer, beat, and piper, blow
Harper, strike, and soldier, go
Free the flame and sear the grasses"
What's the next line?
2. "Honor those the dragon heed
In thought and favor, word and deed.
Worlds are lost or worlds are saved
From those dangers dragon-braved."
What's the danger dragons fight?
3. ""Dragonman, avoid excess:
Greed will bring the Weyr distress:
To the ancient Law adhere,
Prospers thus the Dragonweyr.
Who used this teachingsong to justify the isolation of the Weyr?
4. "____, watch; ____, learn
Something new in every Turn.
Oldest may be coldest, too.
Sense the right: find the true!"
Who must watch and learn? From "The Dragonsong".
5. "Black, blacker, blackest
And cold beyond frozen things.
Where is ____ when there is naught
To Life but fragile dragons' wings?"
What is described in this song, what is the missing word?
6. "Oh, Tongue, give sound to joy and sing
Of hope and promise on ____."
7. "____ of the Hold, your charge is sure
In thick walls, metal doors, and no verdure."
8. "Dragonman, Dragonman,
Between thee and thine,
Share me that glimpse of love
Greater than mine."
When does this love begin?
9. "Wheel and turn
Or bleed and burn.
Fly between,
____ and ____.
Soar, dive down,
____ and ____.
Dragonmen must fly
When Threads are in the sky."
10. "Then my feet took off and my legs went, too,
So my body was obliged to follow
Me with my hands and my mouth full of cress
And my throat too dry to swallow."
Why did Menolly run?
11. "____, your song has a sorrowful sound,
Though the tune was written as gay.
Your voice is sad and your hands are slow
And your eye meeting mine turns away."
12. "Who wills,
____.
Who tries,
____.
Who loves,
____."
13. "The little queen all golden
Flew hissing at the sea,
To stop each wave
Her clutch to save
She ventured bravely."
The queen in the song is Menolly's Beauty.
14. "As she attacked the sea in rage
A holderman came nigh
Along the sand
Fishnet in hand
And saw the queen midsky."
Who was the "holderman"?
15. "He stared at her in wonder
For often he'd been told
That such as she
Could never be
Who hovered there, bright gold."
Why would he have thought she couldn't be?
16. "He saw her plight and quickly
He looked up the cliff he faced
And saw a cave
Above the wave
In which her eggs he placed."
Were the eggs really placed in a cave?
17. "The little queen all golden
Upon his shoulder stood
Her eyes all blue
Glowed of her true
Undying gratitude."
Did the queen really land on his shoulder?
18. "Harper, tell me of the road
That leads beyond this Hold,
That wends its way beyond the hill ...
Does it go further on until
It ends in sunset's ____?"
19. "Speak softly to my lizardfair
Nor raise your hand to me.
For they are quick to take offense
And quicker to champion me."
How many lizards did Menolly have in her fair at the time of this song?
20. "My nightly craft is winged in white;
A ____ of night-dark sea.
Swiftborn, dreambound and rudderless;
Her captain and crew are me.
I sail a hundred sleeping tides
Where no seaman's ever been
And only my white-winged craft and I
Know the marvels we have seen."
21. "The tears I feel today
I'll wait to shed tomorrow.
Though I'll not sleep this night
Nor find surcease from sorrow.
My eyes must keep their sight;
I dare not be tearblinded.
I must be free to talk
Not choked with grief, clear-minded.
My mouth cannot betray
The anguish that I know.
Yes, I'll keep my tears till later:
But my grief will never go."
Who had died?
22. "Don't leave me alone!
A cry in the night,
Of anguish heart-striking,
Of soul-killing fright"
Who had left and who didn't want to be left alone?
23. "Gather! Gather! It's a gather day!
No work for us, and Thread's away.
Stalls are building, square's swept clear,
Gather all from far and near.
Bring your marks and bring your wares,
Bring your family for there's
Food and drink and fun and song.
The Hold flag flies: so gather along!"
What is the treat Piemur buys for Menolly for her first Gather at Fort?
24. "The fickle wind's my foe,
With tide his keen ally.
They're jealous of my sea's love
And rouse her with their lie."
Who told Menolly to sing a sea-song at the Gather at Fort?
25. "Oh sweet sea, oh dear sea,
Heed not their stormy wile
But bear me safely to my Hold
And from their watery trial."
Speaking of trial, what did Piemur think of Menolly singing at the Gather?
Source: Author
Zanette
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Bruyere before going online.
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