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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the reaction to Brooder's connexion for the Eusa story Riddley remembers from childhood?
(a) Some people left the community.
(b) Some people wanted a new connexion man.
(c) Goodparley and Orfing came back.
(d) The group moved from Crippel the Farn and came to How Fents.

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

3. What happened when the man and woman in Lorna's story looked into the eyes of a goat?
(a) They lost the dog.
(b) They got cleverness.
(c) They had children.
(d) They couldn not build fire any more.

4. What does Riddley think after the Eusa show ends on the night he is scarred?
(a) This Eusa show did not tell the true story.
(b) This was the best Eusa show he had ever seen.
(c) This Eusa show was his first as connexion man.
(d) That Eusa did drop the bombs.

5. Who runs on Riddley's knife the day the men try to lift the object from the hole intact?
(a) Riddley's father.
(b) Lorna Elswint.
(c) The leader of the Bernt Arse pack.
(d) The Hart of the Wood.

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

7. On the day the men try to lift the object from the hole intact, what three things does Riddley try to connect?
(a) The deaths of his father, the baby, and the dog.
(b) The deaths of his father, mother, and grandfather.
(c) Lorna's tel, the death of his father, and the death of the baby.
(d) The crow, the baby, and the dog.

8. After he splits the atom, why doesn't Eusa know how many changes there are to come?
(a) The writing with the numbers was destroyed.
(b) The Little Man won't tell him.
(c) Eusa's wife had the information with her.
(d) He never knew how many changes there would be.

9. Who is the albino at the digging?
(a) An old friend of Brooder Walker.
(b) Orfing.
(c) Goodparley.
(d) Belnost Phist from the Mincery.

10. After the fire, what does Riddley accuse Lorna of doing?
(a) Of killing the baby.
(b) Of stealing the dog's hide.
(c) Of taking his food;
(d) Of putting something on him.

11. How are Eusa shows traditionally introduced?
(a) Orfing talks to the crowd.
(b) The kids sing.
(c) Riddley and the crowd repeat lines about the show.
(d) Lorna Elswint sings.

12. What did the leader of the group that was following the narrator look like?
(a) He was a big black and red spotted dog.
(b) He was a small, deformed lion.
(c) He was a small, but powerful, man.
(d) He was a tall, heavily built man.

13. What does Eusa do with all his knowledge in the Goodparley/Orfing show?
(a) Shares it with his friends.
(b) Puts it in a box.
(c) Writes it down in a book.
(d) Gives it to Mr. Clevver.

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

15. Riddley tells a story from when he was 7 or 8. What happened to Littl Salting when Riddley was young?
(a) It was flooded out.
(b) They were forced to leave by the Big 2.
(c) Their crops didn't grow.
(d) Taken over by Dog Et Form.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Goodparley want Riddley to tell after they share the wotcher?

2. In the written Eusa story, what happened when there was knowledge and Eusa was working for Mr. Clevver?

3. Was it really the Littl Man who took Eusa's wife?

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

5. What three things does Lorna talk about on the evening Riddley's father died?

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