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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the Lord say that men of his stature bathe in the winter?
(a) By standing in wine barrels.
(b) By sitting in metal tins.
(c) By sitting in tubs.
(d) By standing in wooden crates.

2. What do the people of the village and the Inn fear?
(a) Birle.
(b) Strangeness.
(c) The man.
(d) Muir.

3. What does Birle NOT think about as she and the Lord travel down the river?
(a) Her Da, brothers, and Nan.
(b) The life of an Innkeeper's daughter.
(c) The end of the journey and the parting.
(d) Her grandparents.

4. Birle knows that the movement she sees at the beginning of the novel is not a man of the village because of what?
(a) Men of the village are shorter.
(b) Men of the village carry a light.
(c) Men of the village make no noise.
(d) Men of the village always walk in pairs.

5. What is Birle's goal in regards to the thief and the boat?
(a) She does not care and prefers to go back home.
(b) She wants to prevent the theft of the boat and does not care for the thief himself.
(c) She wants to capture the thief and take him back to the village.
(d) She wants to prevent the theft of the boat and capture the thief.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the people of the village bathe in the winter, according to Birle?

2. What story does Birle tell the Lord?

3. What allows Birle to feel that the thief is no threat to her?

4. What is the law for second marriages for Lords?

5. What is the law for second marriages for commoners?

(see the answer key)

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