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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As Riddley gets to Cambry and feels the power there, what do the dogs do?
(a) Push him to keep moving.
(b) Run round in circles and start standing on their hind legs.
(c) Lie down and refuse to move.
(d) Start howling.

2. Who does Riddley meet near Good Mercy Form?
(a) Lorna Elswint.
(b) Goodparley.
(c) Orfing.
(d) Granser/Drop John the Foller Man.

3. Who does Riddley find trapped after he runs away?
(a) Goodparley.
(b) Orfing.
(c) The Ardship of Cambry.
(d) Lorna Elswint.

4. After Durster's mishap, what does Lorna Elswint ask Riddley about the dog he saw?
(a) She wants to know how work he and the other got done.
(b) She wants to know what happened to Durster.
(c) She wonders if Riddley got the 1st knowing.
(d) She wants to know if he has a new connexion.

5. As Riddley and Lissener creep amongst the rubble, what does Riddley learn about himself?
(a) He is a type of listener.
(b) He should be a connexion man.
(c) He misses the place where he used to live.
(d) He is afraid of the machines in the rubble.

6. In the Orfing/Walker show, what does the main character do to Erny?
(a) Spits at him.
(b) Kicks him.
(c) Bites him.
(d) Whacks him.

7. Why do Coxin and Fister have words when they head to the diggings?
(a) Coxin wanted to be 1st man.
(b) Coxin took some tools.
(c) Coxin thought they should lose someone before they started off.
(d) Fister asked Coxin to do something and he refused.

8. What do Riddley and Lissener talk about as they walk on their first evening together?
(a) Why Riddley ran away from his work group.
(b) Dreams.
(c) How Lissener got in the hole.
(d) How Riddley's father died.

9. What story does Riddley write when he is in Cambry?
(a) Hoap of a tree.
(b) Stone.
(c) The two and the one.
(d) Eusa 7.

10. Who was waiting for Riddley the morning after his first connexion?
(a) Straiter Empy.
(b) Nimbel Potter and the other children.
(c) Lorna Elswint.
(d) Fister Crunchman.

11. Who comes to lead Riddley when he runs away from the work site?
(a) The black dog.
(b) Goodparley.
(c) Lorna Elswint.
(d) Belnot Phist.

12. What happens when Riddley tries to get Lissener to quit talking the first night they are together?
(a) Lissener has an epileptic fit.
(b) Lissener stomps off without Riddley.
(c) Lissener sits down and refuses to move.
(d) The hevvys hear Riddley and Lissener.

13. How does Riddley get over the wall at Widders Dump when he returns after leaving Lissener?
(a) Walks up to the gate.
(b) Climbs a rope.
(c) Slips through a hole in the fence.
(d) Hits a guard and slips through the gate.

14. What time of day was it when Riddley left the dead town after running away from the work group?
(a) The next afternoon.
(b) When it was so dark you could not even see the hand on the end of your arm.
(c) At sunset.
(d) In the morning.

15. What drew Lissener to the boat that he and Riddley found?
(a) The noise of the sea.
(b) The sound of the hevvys working.
(c) The sound of singing.
(d) Little bag of little crummly stoans.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Riddley learn that he and Goodparley share?

2. When Riddley gets back to Fork Stone, what is the first thing he sees?

3. What does Goodparley tell Riddley about the puppet Riddley found in the digging?

4. Why do Lissener and Riddley split up instead of going on together to Cambry?

5. In Goodparley's story, what happened to Ingland after Eusa's head was put on a hole?

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