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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Agba worried about the mare he tends?
(a) She has a lame leg.
(b) She is pregnant and not feeling well.
(c) Bad omens bode ill for the mare's foal.
(d) She will soon be sent to France.

2. What does Agba see the mare doing when he wakes in Chapter 3?
(a) Drying her newborn foal.
(b) Giving birth.
(c) Eating corn.
(d) Sleeping.

3. Why doesn't Agba immediately tell anyone about the foal's birth?
(a) He enjoys watching the new foal and his favorite mare.
(b) He is too tired to get up.
(c) He is afriad the foal is dying.
(d) The foal is only one of a thousand born that year.

4. Where does Agba fall asleep at the end of Chapter 2?
(a) On a table.
(b) In the straw.
(c) Outside the stables.
(d) In his cot.

5. In Chapter 2, when does Agba eat his meal?
(a) After he has fed all of his horses.
(b) After he has fed his mare.
(c) Before he feeds his horses.
(d) He does not get to eat.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who owns the horses that Agba tends?

2. Where are the horses racing in the Prologue?

3. Why doesn't Agba eat with the other stable boys?

4. What special treatment does Agba show the mare?

5. What animal does the mare once outrun?

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