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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the nailed hands represent?
(a) Corbel's power.
(b) Ker and Torson's slave trade.
(c) The king's power.
(d) The injustice of slavery.

2. What does Birle say in attempts to convince the Lord to take him with her on his journey?
(a) She says she knows how to hunt better than any man and can feed him well.
(b) She says she knows the forest and what is in the forest is for eating.
(c) She says she is an excellent tracker.
(d) She says that she is desperate to escape from her home.

3. 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 make no noise.
(b) Men of the village are shorter.
(c) Men of the village carry a light.
(d) Men of the village always walk in pairs.

4. Why are there two hands nailed to a board?
(a) Because two men cheated Corbel.
(b) Because two men stole money.
(c) Because two slaves tried to escape.
(d) Because two men died defending Corbel.

5. What does Birle conclude that the mysterious figure is after he spots her?
(a) A thief.
(b) A huntsman.
(c) A runaway servant.
(d) A robber.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Birle's main goal for going to the marketplace?

2. Who does Joaquim say has fled the city after Corbel's marriage?

3. Who chases Birle and the Lord?

4. What article of clothing does Birle use in hopes of the rain soaking it?

5. What happened to Birle's mother?

(see the answer key)

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