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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the people need in the story the narrator tells in Chapter 1?
(a) Food.
(b) Fire.
(c) Clothing.
(d) Milk.

2. Why does the narrator decide to write his story?
(a) His father asks him to write his story.
(b) He likes to tell stories.
(c) An old woman ask him to write his story.
(d) Thinking about a thing that is inside of every person and what it might be.

3. What happens to the three people in the narrator's story?
(a) The child is killed and eaten and the parents leave the next morning.
(b) They freeze to death.
(c) They are struck by lighting.
(d) The child is killed and eaten and the parents are burned by fire.

4. Who dies in the village the same day that the men are trying to remove the object from the hole?
(a) The leader of the Bernt Arse pack.
(b) Lorna Elswint.
(c) Riddley's mother.
(d) A baby.

5. Why couldn't the people in Lorna's story get any rest after they obtained the 2nd knowledge?
(a) They were always reading books.
(b) They were always fishing.
(c) They were always harvesting crops.
(d) They were always counting.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the 1st knowing that Lorna refers to?

2. What happened when the people in Lorna's story put in the 1 Big 1?

3. What is the usual procedure for getting large objects out of holes?

4. in Lorna's story, how did the man and woman's lives change after they got the 1st knowing?

5. Where did the people of the village put the head of the dog that Riddley killed?

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