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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, Detour Through the Desert.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is The Water Song?
(a) It is a song everyone sings when they go to the well for water.
(b) It is words set to the sound of the water flowing down the hill.
(c) It is an ancient song sung for generations in the valley.
(d) It is the words they heard the water singing, so they made up music to go with it.

2. How did the rest of her family feel when they realized Much-Afraid had gone with the Shepherd?
(a) They missed her.
(b) They wanted to join her.
(c) They were jealous.
(d) They were happy to be rid of her.

3. What was on the table beside Much-Afraid?
(a) A music box.
(b) An old song book.
(c) A letter from the Shepherd saying, "good-bye."
(d) Her clock.

4. What awakened Much-Afraid from her sleep the night after the foiled abduction?
(a) An agonizing pain.
(b) The voices of the Fearlings outside her window.
(c) A nightmare about marrying Craven Fearling.
(d) The Shepherd asking why she never came.

5. What did Much-Afraid find out when she went to the sheepfolds and asked if the Chief Shepherd was there?
(a) They did not know who the Chief Shepherd was.
(b) Nothing.
(c) That he was gone and had left the two undershepherds in charge.
(d) That he was watching sheep on the other side of the mountain.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Shepherd tell Much-Afraid she must learn on her journey?

2. When the Shepherd takes Much-Afraid into the pyramid what does he show her?

3. What made the Fearlings finally leave Much-Afraid's cottage?

4. Why isn't Mrs. Valiant afraid of the Fearlings?

5. What did Much-Afraid realize about her climb to the High Places?

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