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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What three things does Lorna talk about on the evening Riddley's father died?
(a) Three stories about Master Chaynjis.
(b) Three stories about Eusa.
(c) Brooder's death, the baby's death, and the dog's death.
(d) Three villages that are threatened by wild dogs.

2. After splitting the atom, Eusa continues to see the Littl Man. How can Eusa get away from the Littl Man?
(a) By getting on a ship.
(b) He can't get away from the Littl Man.
(c) By running.
(d) By dying.

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

4. What huge traveling party arrives at Widders Dump the day after Brooder dies?
(a) Belnot Phist and Chalker Marchman.
(b) Abel Goodparley and Erny Orfing, the Pry Mincer and Wes Mincer.
(c) Mr. Clevvers.
(d) Straiter Empy.

5. What does Riddley confess about his father's connexions?
(a) His father always wrote out his connexions.
(b) They weren't anything special.
(c) He didn't like his father's connexions.
(d) Riddley thought he could do better connexions than his father did.

6. The night Riddley's father dies, who starts a fire?
(a) The children of the village.
(b) The women of the village.
(c) Riddley, Straiter Empy, Reckman Bessup, and Lorna Elswint.
(d) The people of Widders Dump.

7. After the people in Lorna's story had the 1st knowing for a while what did they begin to wonder?
(a) How to store food.
(b) What the 2nd, 3rd, and other knowings might be like.
(c) What it would be like to look in the eyes of a deer.
(d) How to make friends with other animals.

8. What have the little kids been doing while Riddley was scared?
(a) Getting ready for bed.
(b) Creeping in and out of the fit.
(c) Singing in the rain.
(d) Eating their dinners.

9. What story does the narrator tell in Chapter 1?
(a) The Hart of the Wood.
(b) The story of his mother's death.
(c) The Eusa story.
(d) His birth story.

10. Who was at the digging in Chapter 5 when Riddley arrived?
(a) Chalker Marchman and an albino.
(b) Lorna Elswint.
(c) Nimbel Potter.
(d) The Bernt Arse Pack.

11. What does Eusa do with all his knowledge in the Goodparley/Orfing show?
(a) Gives it to Mr. Clevver.
(b) Puts it in a box.
(c) Writes it down in a book.
(d) Shares it with his friends.

12. Why do the villagers join hands around a fire?
(a) To talk about Brooder's life.
(b) To celebrate the killing of the dog.
(c) To pray for protection from bad luck.
(d) To pray for a good harvest.

13. Who are the characters in the story Riddley remembers from his 7th or 8th year?
(a) Eusa, salting bloak, Littl Shyning Man, and Mr. Clevver.
(b) Folleree and Folleroo.
(c) Eusa and Mr. Clevver.
(d) Punch and Pooty.

14. What does Goodparley want Riddley to tell after they share the wotcher?
(a) The story of how his father died.
(b) The story of killing the boar.
(c) The story Lorna told Riddley.
(d) Eusa 31.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who follows Riddley and the other men to Widders Dump the day after his father's death?

2. Who do the narrator and his companions pass as they walk by with their prize on the first day of the novel?

3. What happened when the people in Lorna's story put in the 1 Big 1?

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

5. How old is the albino?

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