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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does a man ask Beetle to do when he believes she is someone else in Chapter 5?
(a) Serve him his ale.
(b) Read his racing slip.
(c) Clean his horse.
(d) Milk his cow.

2. How does Jane break her ankle in Chapter 5?
(a) She is pushed by a village hooligan.
(b) She falls down a hill.
(c) She trips on a puddle of water.
(d) She trips over a pig.

3. Who is Tansy?
(a) The baker's wife.
(b) Alyce's new cat.
(c) A new girl in the village.
(d) A cow.

4. How would one describe the midwife?
(a) Stern.
(b) Friendly.
(c) Mean and violent.
(d) Shy.

5. What is the midwife's name?
(a) Carol.
(b) Jane.
(c) Betsy.
(d) Anna.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Beetle have to deliver to the manor dairy?

2. Why does Will ask Alyce for help in Chapter 8?

3. What does Beetle take to the cat at the end of Chapter 2?

4. Before the comb, what was the only thing that Beetle had ever owned?

5. What is the only name that the protagonist is known by when the novel begins?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the villagers dislike about Jane?

2. What do the villagers comment on when they pass Alyce and the cat in Chapter 6?

3. What is discovered in the village one morning in Chapter 7?

4. After the miller's baby is born, how does the midwife treat Beetle? Why doesn't Beetle mind her treatment?

5. After helping Will deliver the calves, what changes for Alyce in Chapter 8?

6. Why is Alyce made to deliver messages and run errands after dark? Why doesn't this bother her?

7. What does Alyce offer the cat in Chapter 6?

8. What does Beetle enjoy watching in Chapter 2?

9. What forces Brat to be constantly moving from place to place?

10. In Chapter 7, what do the 'Devil's footprints' lead the villagers to on Old North Road?

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