Gathering Blue Study Questions – Flashcards
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Where is Kira when the story opens?
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Kira is at the Field of Leaving
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What is she waiting for?
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the spirit of Katrina to leave her body
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Why does Kira have no place to go?
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Her cott has burned down
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Why is Kira using a walking stick?
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She has a crippled leg
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What happened to Kira's father?
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He was taken by beasts while hunting
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Who does Kira talk to back at the village?
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Matt
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What is left in Kira's garden?
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vegetables and flowers
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What does the woman take from the garden?
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carrots
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What is on Vandara's face?
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a scar
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What does Vandara pick up?
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a rock
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When she speaks to the hostile women, to what does Kira appeal?
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their fears
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What would happen to the causer-of-death?
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They would be killed
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Who will decide Kira's fate?
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the Council of Guardians
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Who lived through the Ruin?
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None
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Who tells of the Ruin?
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the Singer
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What does Kira do when she approached the stick cross?
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She arranges her hands in a reverent way
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What does Vandara do after she makes the worshipful gesture?
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bow
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According to Vandara, why was Kira allowed to live as an infant?
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Her grandfather had great power
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Why is Kira not required to defend herself?
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She is only of two-syllables.
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What does Kira touch in her pocket?
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a scrap of cloth and her mother's comb
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Who wears ornamentation?
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Jamison and the Elite
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What is in the volumes bound in green leather?
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laws
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What question does Kira have about her father's death?
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"Was he afraid?," "Was my father afraid?"
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What crime does Christopher say Vandara has committed?
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She murdered her own child by making him eat a poisonous plant
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What special sewing did Kira's mother do?
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Weaving the Singer's robe
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What color couldn't Kira's mother make?
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Blue
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When did Kira decorate the cloth she touches in her pocket?
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When her mother was sick
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What is in the box in Kira's room?
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the robe
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Who taught Kira's mother the art of dyeing cloth?
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Annabella
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Who gets Kira's spot for her cott?
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Vandara and the women
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What is Kira's new job?
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the new weaver of the Singer's robe
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How did Matt get his dog?
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Matt found the stray dog and used a branch to splinter its tail
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Why will Kira meet Matt at the steps at four bells?
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Matt will bring things he salvaged from Kira's burned cottage
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Who accompanies Kira to her new living place?
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Matt and Jamison
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Who lives across Kira?
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Thomas
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What is in the bundle Matt carries?
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a threading frame, dried herbs, tubers, and folded pieces of her mother's clothing
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What happens to the special cloth at night?
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the cloth moved as if it had life.
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What is a tender?
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a helper
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How did Thomas' parents die?
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They were shocked by lightning
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What does Kira find in the shallow drawer?
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threads not yet dyed
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Who goes with Kira into the woods?
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Matt and Branch
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Why doesn't Matt know what a gift is?
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Gifts aren't given in the Fen.
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What color can't Annabella make?
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blue
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Is there any blue in the Singer's robe?
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There once was, but has faded
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How does Thomas help Kira remember her plants and dyes?
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He will write and read aloud the names of the herbs
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What sound does Thomas hear in the night?
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a child crying
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What is Thomas working on?
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the Singer's staff
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After finding Matt in the hunting group, where do Thomas and Kira take Matt?
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Kira's bathroom
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What does Matt want of Kira?
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a gift
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Why is Kira frightened as she walks down the path to Annabella's?
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Kira thought she heard beasts
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What does Annabella tell Kira about beasts?
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There be no beasts
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Who does Kira decide to ask about beasts?
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Jamison
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What pattern does Kira see in the robe?
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Ruin-Regrowth-Ruin-Regrowth
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What does Kira think could be making the noise?
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an animal
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Whose voice does Kira hear in the corridor?
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Jamison
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Who is singing?
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Jo
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What does Jamison say happened to Annabella?
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She died in her sleep
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Why does Matt tell Kira not to go to the old dyer's?
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She wouldn't be there, she died
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Where did Matt see Jamison that morning?
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Walking beside the draggers who carried Annabella's body
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What does Jo say she's doing?
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practicing her song
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Where does Kira find Jamison?
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In the open doorway of Kira's room
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Why won't Jamison let Kira watch at the Field for Annabella?
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there is work to be done with the Gathering approaching
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Why isn't Thomas surprised that Jo is locked in?
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Thomas was locked in as a tyke
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What is the word Thomas uses to describe himself, Kira, and Jo?
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artists
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How can Thomas and Kira get into Jo's room?
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Thomas carved a key that can unlock any door.
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What does Kira do to soothe the child?
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picks her up, cradles and rocks her
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What is the emergency signal that Jo needs them?
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tap on the ceiling
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What does Kira suddenly know?
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They're being used--they are not free--they are captive
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Who makes a low growl like a beast?
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Vandara
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What does Thomas give to the woman in the Fen in exchange for info?
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an apple
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What is in front of Matt's house?
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a broken tree
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Where did Matt go?
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trying to find blue
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What is Matt's special talent?
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making people laugh
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What will Jo sing someday for Kira?
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a new song
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Where does the Singer live?
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in a different section of Edifice
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What does Jamison expect Kira to do after the Gathering?
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start dyeing new threads
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Who told Thomas that someone would come for him and Kira?
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a tender
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What does Kira do when she's introduced?
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stands and bows
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What does Jo do when she's introduced?
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smiles and waves
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What does Kira feel when she sees the robe?
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proud
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What is Kira able to do when she looks at Thomas' lists of plants and dyes?
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reads some of the words
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What is the "big giftie" Matt has brought to Kira?
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Christopher
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What is different about the people yonder?
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they are all crippled and broken
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What is the sound Kira hears?
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dragging sound of metal chains
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Who does the Singer call on stage at the end of the performance?
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Jo
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What is the stranger wearing?
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a blue shirt
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What is the stranger's handicap?
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blind
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What is in the bag?
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woad from yonder to make blue
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Who is the man?
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Christopher, Kira's father
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Why was Christopher hurt?
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Jamison tried to kill him out of jealousy
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Who took Christopher from the field?
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strangers
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Does Christopher have another wife?
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No
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Where does Kira's father want her to go?
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to go to village yonder
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Who tried to kill Christopher?
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Jamison
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What does Kira plant?
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woad
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What is the metal clanging sound Kira hears at the Gathering?
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chains on the Singer's ankle
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Who will take Christopher to the village?
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Matt
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What part of the woad might live?
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the small shoot
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Who does Matt think Kira can marry?
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a blue-eyed boy in the village
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What gift does Kira's father leave with her?
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his shirt
