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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened three days after Riddley's naming day?
(a) Riddley's mother dies.
(b) Riddley goes to work with the chard coal burners.
(c) Riddley's father dies.
(d) Riddley runs away from home.

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

3. After the people in Lorna's story had the 1st knowing for a while what did they begin to wonder?
(a) How to store food.
(b) What the 2nd, 3rd, and other knowings might be like.
(c) How to make friends with other animals.
(d) What it would be like to look in the eyes of a deer.

4. What is the 1st knowing that Lorna refers to?
(a) They knew how to use the dog to help them.
(b) They learned cleverness.
(c) They knew the night.
(d) They knew the day.

5. What story does Lorna tell the same day that Riddley's father died?
(a) Why the Dog Hates People.
(b) Why the Dog Won't Show It's Eyes.
(c) Why the Dog Kills People.
(d) Why the Dog Hates Night.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is the narrator of the story?

2. Who dies in the village the same day that the men are trying to remove the object from the hole?

3. Who was at the digging in Chapter 5 when Riddley arrived?

4. What story does the narrator tell in Chapter 1?

5. How did Riddley's mother die and how old was he when she died?

(see the answer key)

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