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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What allows Birle to feel that the thief is no threat to her?
(a) Her blood.
(b) The strange man's weak stature.
(c) The fact that the man is asleep while she is awake.
(d) Her father's advice.

2. Who is Lyss?
(a) Birle's grandmother.
(b) Birle's mother.
(c) Birle's sister.
(d) Birle's stepmother.

3. What is the only name by which Birle says she knows of her mother's father?
(a) Jackaroo.
(b) Jacko.
(c) Jacksonroo.
(d) Jack.

4. Birle knows that the movement she sees at the beginning of the novel is not a man of the village because of what?
(a) Men of the village always walk in pairs.
(b) Men of the village carry a light.
(c) Men of the village make no noise.
(d) Men of the village are shorter.

5. Thinking about what makes Birle NOT want to return to the Inn?
(a) Her parents.
(b) Morning chores.
(c) Her wedding.
(d) Muir.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the people of the village bathe in the winter, according to Birle?

2. On the first evening, what does Birle attempt to request of the Lord?

3. What is the law for second marriages for commoners?

4. Near the end of Chapter 2, what are Birle's feelings towards her intended?

5. What do the people of the village and the Inn fear?

(see the answer key)

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