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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 in the narrator's story do to get what they need?
(a) Give their child to be killed.
(b) Pay gold coins.
(c) Kill a wild boar.
(d) Search for flint and tinder.

2. In the story told by Lorna in Chapter 3, what things have shape?
(a) People and animals.
(b) Everything, even the night.
(c) The ground.
(d) Everything, except the night.

3. How did Riddley's mother die and how old was he when she died?
(a) She died from drowning when he was 8.
(b) She died of coughing sickness when he was 5.
(c) She died in childbirth when he was born.
(d) She died in a fire when he was 5.

4. Where did the people of the village put the head of the dog that Riddley killed?
(a) They threw him into the woods.
(b) On a pole on top of the gate house.
(c) They buried the dog.
(d) On a spike outside the village fence.

5. Who yelled "Fall! Fall! Fall!" while the men were trying to pull the large object out of the hole intact?
(a) Chalker Marchman.
(b) Riddley.
(c) A crow.
(d) Brooder Walker.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was following the narrator and his companions on the day the novel begins?

2. What is the name of the place that Riddley lives?

3. What happened when the object fell that the men were trying to get out of the hole intact?

4. What happened three days after Riddley's naming day?

5. What story does Lorna tell the same day that Riddley's father died?

(see the answer key)

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