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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part One: The Finding; The Sign-Seeker.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why doesn't Will go near the family's two dogs?
(a) They snarled at him.
(b) The dogs are ill.
(c) He fears they will reject him.
(d) He doesn't like them.

2. What does John Smith tell Will about Hunter's Combe?
(a) That nothing good comes along the road.
(b) That the road is filled with snow and to be safe.
(c) That the road is good for everyone who comes along it.
(d) That nothing can harm him along the road.

3. What does Paul state is the reason Will's skylight broke?
(a) The Dark pushed against it.
(b) Birds nested on it.
(c) A rusty latch.
(d) An icy latch that broke under the strain of the snow.

4. Why doesn't Will fall asleep right away when he gets into bed?
(a) A feeling of love and happiness keeps him awake.
(b) A feeling of fear of the dark keeps him awake.
(c) A feeling of anxiousness about his birthday keeps him awake.
(d) A feeling of fear keeps him awake.

5. To Will, the red-haired man in the dark robes who is seated on his black stallion looks like what?
(a) A statue.
(b) A dark cloud.
(c) A rook.
(d) Danger.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does seeing the stranger in the black coat do to Will?

2. What does the stranger ask Will at the blacksmith's hut?

3. What does Will hear before his world changes to another time?

4. According to Merriman, the next part of Will's quest depends on whom?

5. What does Will's sister, Gwen, give him at the end of the Sign-Seeker section of the novel?

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