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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was at the digging in Chapter 5 when Riddley arrived?
(a) Nimbel Potter.
(b) The Bernt Arse Pack.
(c) Lorna Elswint.
(d) Chalker Marchman and an albino.

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

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

4. Why does Riddley begin to tell the Eusa story from the time he was 7 or 8?
(a) The people of Hows Fent asked him to.
(b) To compare Eusa stories.
(c) To talk about Littl Salting.
(d) To show his dad's style.

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 wanted to be 1st man.
(c) Coxin thought they should lose someone before they started off.
(d) Coxin took some tools.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the albino at the digging?

2. Who does Riddley find trapped after he runs away?

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

4. What is the first thing the narrator does in Chapter 1?

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

(see the answer key)

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