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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Riddley think about when he wakes the morning after his connexion?

2. Who comes to lead Riddley when he runs away from the work site?

3. What does Durster say to anger Riddley at the diggings?

4. What was the weather like when Riddley woke the morning after his connexion?

5. How does the Orfing/Walker show end?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Riddley do to Durster Potter and why?

2. What do the Eusa folk do during the some poasyum according to Lissener?

3. After Riddley leaves Goodparley in Widdows Dump, who does Riddley meet on the road?

4. What does Riddley find in the diggings the third day he goes to them?

5. Why does Riddley dump Belnot Phist in the mud the third day at the diggings?

6. What does Flinter RIghtway tell Orfing and Riddley when they arrive at Weaping Form to do the Punch show?

7. Riddley returns to Widders Dump and finds Goodparley there. Why does Riddley give Goodparley the stones?

8. What do Lissener and Riddley find near the sea?

9. What does Riddley learn about the Eusa folk as he and Lissener get to the outskirts of Fork Stone?

10. Describe Riddley's travels after Granser and Goodparley die.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Chapter 15, Riddley sees a drawing of Goodparley with the words Hoap of a Tree. Then later when Riddley finds Goodparley hung by his arms, Riddley asks if this is the Hoap of the Tree. Orfing says that it is. What is the significance of referring to Goodparley as the Hoap of the Tree? What is the Hoap of the Tree? Why is Goodparley compared to the Hoap of a Tree?

Essay Topic 2

When Riddley releases Lissener from the hole, Lissener relates the children's game Fools Circle 9wys to himself. What is Lissener's title? What does the children's game Fools Circel 9wys have to do with Lissener? Why would Goodparley or anyone else want to put Lissener's head on a pole?

Essay Topic 3

Explore how the knowledge of how to produce gunpowder was preserved by the coal burners and the dyers. Why does it take everyone so long to realize that the coal burners and dyers have the knowledge? How does finding the yeller stones bring all the knowledge together? Now that the the knowledge is out in the open, will more and more people learn how to make gunpowder?

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