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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who grabbed Riddley as he climbs over the fence at Widders Dump?
(a) Fister Crunchman.
(b) Goodparley.
(c) A hevvy.
(d) Orfing.

2. Riddley heads to the diggings for a third time. Who comes out of the woodlings as Riddley and the men head off to Widders Dump?
(a) Goodparley and Orfing.
(b) Bernt Arse Pack.
(c) Nimbel Potter and the other kids.
(d) Belnot Phist.

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

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

5. What do Riddley and Lissener find as they walk closer to the center?
(a) Goodparley.
(b) Orfing.
(c) Big, broken machines.
(d) Six hevvys.

6. How does Lissener find his way to where he and Riddley are going?
(a) He walks very slowly sliding one foot and then the other, along the ground.
(b) He has a walking stick.
(c) He stumbles and falls, but he keeps walking as if there is something pulling him.
(d) He holds Riddley's arm.

7. After Riddley returns to Widders Dump, what does Goodparley want from Riddley?
(a) Riddley's gear.
(b) Riddley's knife.
(c) A connexion.
(d) The bag of stones from the dead man.

8. Where does Riddley hide the yellerboy stone?
(a) In Lissener's pocket.
(b) In the fit up.
(c) In an abandoned shelter.
(d) In Goodparley's pocket.

9. Where is Riddley led after he runs away?
(a) Cambry.
(b) How Fent.
(c) To Bernt Arse.
(d) Widders Dump.

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

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

12. What makes Riddley cry as he and Lessener walk from Fork Stone toward Cambry?
(a) He knows he and Lessener will have to go different ways.
(b) He is thinking about his father.
(c) He is missing his friends from Hows Fent.
(d) He is remembering things from when he was a child.

13. On Riddley's fourth work day at the diggings, what does he find?
(a) Rotten food.
(b) A puppet with a hand in it.
(c) Strange metal.
(d) An old coat.

14. When Riddley gets back to Fork Stone, what is the first thing he sees?
(a) The Eusa folk wielding an ax.
(b) Orfing doing a Eusa show.
(c) Goodparley hung by his hands.
(d) Granser.

15. After he runs away, what does Riddley learn about the 1 Big 1 and the Master Chaynjis?
(a) That Mr. Clevver made the 1 Big 1.
(b) That Goodparley and Orfing know how to make the 1 Big 1.
(c) That the Eusa folk know how to make the 1 Big 1.
(d) That the 1 Big 1 will happen again.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is another name for the person Riddley rescues?

3. What kind of a show do Orfing and Riddley do at Weaping Form?

4. After he is cut down, what does Goodparley beg to be allowed to do with Riddley?

5. Who does Riddley meet near Good Mercy Form?

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