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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lorna say that Brooder was connected to?
(a) His son, his village, and his friends.
(b) A shovel, leaver poal and digging up Bad Time.
(c) The people of Widders Dump.
(d) His work.

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

3. What three things does Lorna talk about on the evening Riddley's father died?
(a) Three villages that are threatened by wild dogs.
(b) Three stories about Master Chaynjis.
(c) Brooder's death, the baby's death, and the dog's death.
(d) Three stories about Eusa.

4. What reason does Lorna give for the baby's death?
(a) The baby's mother was sick.
(b) The people were not only farming, but digging up iron from the Bad Time.
(c) The baby was killed by a wild dog.
(d) The baby had a bad cold.

5. What is Riddley thinking while he is breaking up the big thing the day after his father's death?
(a) His dad died so that the albino dismisses the big thing as rubbish since it wasn't Eusa's head.
(b) That they will never be able to break the thing up.
(c) That they need more men to help break up the big thing.
(d) He was not ready go back to work so soon after his father's death.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the narrator decide to write his story?

2. What do the people need in the story the narrator tells in Chapter 1?

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

4. Who yelled "Fall! Fall! Fall!" while the men were trying to pull the large object out of the hole intact?

5. What does Lorna say happened to the air boats?

(see the answer key)

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