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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is the fire made on the night Brooder dies?
(a) To cremate Brooder Walker.
(b) To stay warm.
(c) To burn the dog that Riddley killed.
(d) To cremate the dead baby.

2. What does Lorna say bonfires were used for?
(a) To keep everyone warm.
(b) To celebrate a good harvest.
(c) To keep away wild dogs.
(d) To call back those who left in the air ships to fetch the people left behind.

3. What happened when the object fell that the men were trying to get out of the hole intact?
(a) Riddley broke his arm.
(b) One of the men broke his leg.
(c) A man broke his back.
(d) Riddley's father died.

4. What is the narrator's name?
(a) Brooder Walker.
(b) Riddley Walker.
(c) Fister Crunchman.
(d) Reckman Bessup.

5. After the fire, how does everyone look at Riddley?
(a) They shun him.
(b) They call him names.
(c) They make him leave How Fents.
(d) Differently, winking, dodging their heads, or giving him the thumbs up.

Short Answer Questions

1. After the people in Lorna's story had the 1st knowing for a while what did they begin to wonder?

2. What huge traveling party arrives at Widders Dump the day after Brooder dies?

3. How old was Riddley's father when he died?

4. Who follows Riddley and the other men to Widders Dump the day after his father's death?

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

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