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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Riddley's mother die and how old was he when she died?
(a) She died from drowning when he was 8.
(b) She died of coughing sickness when he was 5.
(c) She died in a fire when he was 5.
(d) She died in childbirth when he was born.

2. What is the usual procedure for getting large objects out of holes?
(a) If the object was really large, they simply had to leave it in the hole.
(b) Men would get in the hole with pick axes and break the object apart.
(c) Drop large rocks from a crane and break the object into pieces.
(d) Lift the object out using all the strong men on the work crew.

3. What happens to the three people in the narrator's story?
(a) They freeze to death.
(b) The child is killed and eaten and the parents are burned by fire.
(c) The child is killed and eaten and the parents leave the next morning.
(d) They are struck by lighting.

4. What happened when the man and woman in Lorna's story looked into the eyes of a goat?
(a) They got cleverness.
(b) They lost the dog.
(c) They couldn not build fire any more.
(d) They had children.

5. Why couldn't the people in Lorna's story get any rest after they obtained the 2nd knowledge?
(a) They were always counting.
(b) They were always fishing.
(c) They were always reading books.
(d) They were always harvesting crops.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who yelled "Fall! Fall! Fall!" while the men were trying to pull the large object out of the hole intact?

2. What happened when the people in Lorna's story put in the 1 Big 1?

3. In the story told by Lorna in Chapter 3, what things have shape?

4. To whom does the narrator speak when he returns to his home on this first day of the novel?

5. How did the man and woman in Lorna's story get the 1st knowing?

(see the answer key)

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