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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was the reaction to Brooder's connexion for the Eusa story Riddley remembers from childhood?
(a) Goodparley and Orfing came back.
(b) The group moved from Crippel the Farn and came to How Fents.
(c) Some people left the community.
(d) Some people wanted a new connexion man.

3. How are Eusa shows traditionally introduced?
(a) Riddley and the crowd repeat lines about the show.
(b) The kids sing.
(c) Lorna Elswint sings.
(d) Orfing talks to the crowd.

4. Who dies in the village the same day that the men are trying to remove the object from the hole?
(a) Lorna Elswint.
(b) The leader of the Bernt Arse pack.
(c) A baby.
(d) Riddley's mother.

5. What is the 1st knowing that Lorna refers to?
(a) They knew the night.
(b) They learned cleverness.
(c) They knew the day.
(d) They knew how to use the dog to help them.

6. What did Chalker Marchman want done with the big thing that killed Riddley's father?
(a) That it be left alone.
(b) Have it buried.
(c) Break it up and melt it down.
(d) Try to lift it out of the hole.

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

8. Why does the narrator decide to write his story?
(a) He likes to tell stories.
(b) Thinking about a thing that is inside of every person and what it might be.
(c) An old woman ask him to write his story.
(d) His father asks him to write his story.

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

10. What is the weather like the night after the burning?
(a) Rainy.
(b) Clear, but cold.
(c) Snowy.
(d) Clear, but warm.

11. What happened when the people in Lorna's story put in the 1 Big 1?
(a) Nothing.
(b) A flash of light and then endless night.
(c) Eternal daylight.
(d) The machine quit working.

12. What is Riddley thinking while he is breaking up the big thing the day after his father's death?
(a) That they will never be able to break the thing up.
(b) His dad died so that the albino dismisses the big thing as rubbish since it wasn't Eusa's head.
(c) He was not ready go back to work so soon after his father's death.
(d) That they need more men to help break up the big thing.

13. How old was Riddley's father when he died?
(a) Twenty-nine years old.
(b) Fifty-two years old.
(c) Thirty-nine years old.
(d) Thirty-three years old.

14. What does Riddley think after the Eusa show ends on the night he is scarred?
(a) That Eusa did drop the bombs.
(b) This was the best Eusa show he had ever seen.
(c) This Eusa show did not tell the true story.
(d) This Eusa show was his first as connexion man.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the people need in the story the narrator tells in Chapter 1?

2. The night after Riddley gets his scar, who does the asking with Riddley?

3. What are the children doing the night after the burning?

4. After Eusa splits the Littl Man in the written story, what do the dogs tell Eusa?

5. Who is the albino at the digging?

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