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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What destroys wildlife and creates more opportunities for the desert to advance into the area?
(a) Water.
(b) Chemicals.
(c) Farming.
(d) Fire.

2. Children gather __________ which are then smoked and packed away for the coming months and seasons.
(a) Pigeons.
(b) Snails.
(c) Tuna rolls.
(d) Shallows.

3. Even when one of the soldiers is injured during the search for barbarians, the only soldiers just ____________ in response.
(a) Dance.
(b) Leave.
(c) Laugh.
(d) Torture him.

4. What do the men think is associated with bad luck, so they have to perform a purification ritual before continuing on?
(a) Dead horses.
(b) A long journey.
(c) Little food.
(d) Menstruation.

5. The magistrate lives from ___________________, getting supplies from friends and from women he used to know well.
(a) The trash.
(b) The church.
(c) Meal to meal.
(d) City to city.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the magistrate deprived of when he is imprisoned for his various accusations and alleged crimes?

2. More ____________ are built for the barbarians tortured in front of their relatives as the story goes on.

3. Who is imprisoned on the way into town, though this prisoner(s) does not seem like a likely candidate for a spy?

4. The boy admits to theft of __________ and arming by his clan during the torture by the Colonel.

5. What is the magistrate reaching, which makes the reader think that he might be older than others in the book?

(see the answer key)

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