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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What would Riddley like to do with the hide of the dog that he killed?
(a) Make it into a coat.
(b) Give it to Lorna.
(c) Burn it.
(d) Make a hood with the dog's teeth all around it.

2. On the day the men try to lift the object from the hole intact, what three things does Riddley try to connect?
(a) Lorna's tel, the death of his father, and the death of the baby.
(b) The deaths of his father, mother, and grandfather.
(c) The crow, the baby, and the dog.
(d) The deaths of his father, the baby, and the dog.

3. Who was following the narrator and his companions on the day the novel begins?
(a) The leader of the Bernt Arse pack.
(b) The narrator's best friend.
(c) The narrator's father.
(d) The chard coal burners.

4. What is the first thing the narrator does in Chapter 1?
(a) Kills a wild boar.
(b) Talks to an old woman.
(c) Goes for a walk.
(d) Kills a deer.

5. in Lorna's story, how did the man and woman's lives change after they got the 1st knowing?
(a) They made tents and wandered even more than they had before.
(b) They stopped wandering, settled down, raised animals, and grew crops.
(c) They built a large boat.
(d) They foraged with the dog.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the people in the narrator's story do to get what they need?

2. To whom does the narrator speak when he returns to his home on this first day of the novel?

3. Who runs on Riddley's knife the day the men try to lift the object from the hole intact?

4. What reason does Lorna give for the baby's death?

5. Why do the villagers join hands around a fire?

(see the answer key)

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