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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the law for second marriages for commoners?
(a) It is allowed with some restrictions.
(b) It is not allowed.
(c) It is not allowed but Nan was an exception.
(d) It is allowed once the first wife has been dead five years.

2. Why does the thief decide to keep Birle on board the boat and listen to her?
(a) She agrees to row for him so that he can rest.
(b) She agrees to marry him.
(c) She says she will reward him for the return of the boat.
(d) She convinces him that she knows the area and without her, he will be lost.

3. What aspect of human nature is exemplified by Birle in this first chapter?
(a) Brute strength.
(b) Cowardice.
(c) Independence.
(d) Forgiveness.

4. What does Birle suggest so that she does not have to part from the Lord?
(a) She says she will travel with him as his sister.
(b) She says she will travel with him as a servant.
(c) She says she will travel with him as his brother.
(d) She says she will travel with him as his wife.

5. The fact that the man who has stolen the boat has no beard lets Birle realize that he holds what position in society?
(a) A married man.
(b) A Lord.
(c) A farmer.
(d) A huntsman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What types of people has Birle heard tales about since childhood, which might speculate as to who this mysterious figure might be?

2. What is the first thing our main character is said to have seen in the very beginning of the novel?

3. Birle knows that the movement she sees at the beginning of the novel is not a man of the village because of what?

4. What does the Lord tell Birle about the life of a wife of a huntsman?

5. How does the Lord say that men of his stature bathe in the winter?

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