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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What story does Lorna tell the same day that Riddley's father died?
(a) Why the Dog Kills People.
(b) Why the Dog Hates People.
(c) Why the Dog Hates Night.
(d) Why the Dog Won't Show It's Eyes.

2. Why is the albino at the digging?
(a) He came to pay his respects to Riddley.
(b) He wanted to be sure the big thing was broken up properly.
(c) He needed timber cut for a project he was building at Widders Dump.
(d) He came to put on a Eusa show.

3. What does Lorna say happened to the air boats?
(a) They were destroyed in the 1 Big 1.
(b) They ran out of fuel after the 1 Big 1.
(c) People sabotaged them.
(d) They got to space stations and the people on them died.

4. What happened when the man and woman in Lorna's story looked into the eyes of a goat?
(a) They got cleverness.
(b) They couldn not build fire any more.
(c) They had children.
(d) They lost the dog.

5. What happened three days after Riddley's naming day?
(a) Riddley's father dies.
(b) Riddley's mother dies.
(c) Riddley runs away from home.
(d) Riddley goes to work with the chard coal burners.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who dies in the village the same day that the men are trying to remove the object from the hole?

2. What three things does Lorna talk about on the evening Riddley's father died?

3. Why does the narrator decide to write his story?

4. What is the usual procedure for getting large objects out of holes?

5. Why has a large traveling party come to Widders Dump?

(see the answer key)

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