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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who follows Riddley and the other men to Widders Dump the day after his father's death?
(a) Bernt Arse Pack.
(b) Rockman Bessup.
(c) The children from How Fents.
(d) Lorna Elswint.

2. What did Chalker Marchman want done with the big thing that killed Riddley's father?
(a) That it be left alone.
(b) Break it up and melt it down.
(c) Try to lift it out of the hole.
(d) Have it buried.

3. in Lorna's story, how did the man and woman's lives change after they got the 1st knowing?
(a) They built a large boat.
(b) They made tents and wandered even more than they had before.
(c) They foraged with the dog.
(d) They stopped wandering, settled down, raised animals, and grew crops.

4. After Goodparley and Orfing finish the show, what does Durster Potter say to Riddley?
(a) Congratulations.
(b) That Goodparley and Orfing wanted to talk with Riddley.
(c) That he needed to go back in to talk with Lorna.
(d) Wouldn't want to be out this night on the other side of the fence.

5. In the written Eusa story, who was the Big Man?
(a) Littl Shinynin Man.
(b) Eusa.
(c) Mr. Clevver.
(d) Folleree.

6. At the end of Lorna's story, what happens to the dog during the full moon?
(a) He finds a mate.
(b) He goes mad and hurts people if he catches them.
(c) He howls at the moon.
(d) He becomes less wild.

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

8. What position will Riddley hold in his village now that his father is dead?
(a) Connexion man.
(b) Witch doctor.
(c) Tribe leader.
(d) The nindicater.

9. The night after Riddley gets his scar, who does the asking with Riddley?
(a) Straiter Empy.
(b) Lorna Elswint.
(c) Orfing.
(d) Goodparley.

10. What is Eusa's project in the Goodparley/Orfing show?
(a) 1 Big 1.
(b) Make a new head.
(c) Create an air ship.
(d) Good Time.

11. Who plays the part of Eusa in the show put on the the Pry Mincer and Wes Mincer?
(a) Belnot Phist.
(b) Orfing.
(c) Riddley.
(d) Goodparley.

12. Who do the narrator and his companions pass as they walk by with their prize on the first day of the novel?
(a) The chard coal burners.
(b) A clever looking bloke.
(c) A man, woman, and child.
(d) The Hart of the Wood.

13. When does the narrator's story in Chapter 1 take place?
(a) After the bad time.
(b) Three days before the novel begins.
(c) The day the narrator was born.
(d) Before the bad time.

14. Why does Riddley have to get a scar?
(a) It is part of being a connexion man.
(b) Because he killed the boar.
(c) Because his father died.
(d) Because he is becoming a man.

15. What does Riddley confess about his father's connexions?
(a) His father always wrote out his connexions.
(b) Riddley thought he could do better connexions than his father did.
(c) He didn't like his father's connexions.
(d) They weren't anything special.

Short Answer Questions

1. What would Riddley like to do with the hide of the dog that he killed?

2. Why do the villagers join hands around a fire?

3. Who is the albino at the digging?

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

5. What have the little kids been doing while Riddley was scared?

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