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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What position will Riddley hold in his village now that his father is dead?
(a) Tribe leader.
(b) The nindicater.
(c) Connexion man.
(d) Witch doctor.

2. What do the people in the narrator's story do to get what they need?
(a) Search for flint and tinder.
(b) Pay gold coins.
(c) Give their child to be killed.
(d) Kill a wild boar.

3. Why does the narrator decide to write his story?
(a) Thinking about a thing that is inside of every person and what it might be.
(b) An old woman ask him to write his story.
(c) His father asks him to write his story.
(d) He likes to tell stories.

4. When does the narrator's story in Chapter 1 take place?
(a) Three days before the novel begins.
(b) Before the bad time.
(c) After the bad time.
(d) The day the narrator was born.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the leader of the group that was following the narrator look like?

2. Who do the narrator and his companions pass as they walk by with their prize on the first day of the novel?

3. What happened three days after Riddley's naming day?

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

5. When Lorna finishes her story, who does Riddley say he always thought was responsible for the 1 Big 1?

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