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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What time does Goodparley say is past the day after Brooder dies?
(a) Time for connexions.
(b) Time for the Eusa story.
(c) Time for foraging.
(d) Time for farming.

3. Why was everyone left hanging when Riddley did his first connexion?
(a) Riddley did not have a good connexion.
(b) The people of Hows Fent would not let him talk.
(c) Riddley went into a trance.
(d) Riddley was too nervous to speak.

4. Who did Riddley eat breakfast with after his connexion?
(a) No one, he ate alone.
(b) Nimbel Potter.
(c) Straiter Empy.
(d) Lorna and Fister Crunchman.

5. Why do Coxin and Fister have words when they head to the diggings?
(a) Fister asked Coxin to do something and he refused.
(b) Coxin thought they should lose someone before they started off.
(c) Coxin wanted to be 1st man.
(d) Coxin took some tools.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When Eusa finds a stag, why won't it run from him in the written Eusa story?

3. To whom does the narrator speak when he returns to his home on this first day of the novel?

4. What is Eusa's project in the Goodparley/Orfing show?

5. What does Lorna say that Brooder was connected to?

(see the answer key)

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