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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What story does Lorna tell the same day that Riddley's father died?
(a) Why the Dog Won't Show It's Eyes.
(b) Why the Dog Hates Night.
(c) Why the Dog Hates People.
(d) Why the Dog Kills People.

2. After Eusa splits the Littl Man in the written story, what do the dogs tell Eusa?
(a) The land will die, people will eat one another, water will be poison, and the people will drink blood.
(b) He will have more power than anyone can imagine.
(c) Mr. Clevver will reward him greatly.
(d) He will build even more machines.

3. 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 farming.
(d) Time for foraging.

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

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

6. In the written Eusa story, was Eusa able to keep his sons with him?
(a) Yes, after they were reunited with their mother.
(b) No, they followed the Littl Man.
(c) Yes, they built a home together.
(d) No, they died.

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

8. Who says that the Littl Shyning can be put back together the night after Brooder dies?
(a) Belnot Phist.
(b) Riddley.
(c) Orfing.
(d) Goodparley.

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

10. Where did the people of the village put the head of the dog that Riddley killed?
(a) On a spike outside the village fence.
(b) They threw him into the woods.
(c) They buried the dog.
(d) On a pole on top of the gate house.

11. How does Lorna describe the dog that Riddley killed?
(a) Old and worn out.
(b) Strong and healthy.
(c) Small, but strong.
(d) Brown in color and blind in one eye.

12. In the story told by Lorna in Chapter 3, what things have shape?
(a) The ground.
(b) Everything, except the night.
(c) People and animals.
(d) Everything, even the night.

13. What happened three days after Riddley's naming day?
(a) Riddley goes to work with the chard coal burners.
(b) Riddley's father dies.
(c) Riddley's mother dies.
(d) Riddley runs away from home.

14. The night Riddley's father dies, who starts a fire?
(a) The children of the village.
(b) The women of the village.
(c) The people of Widders Dump.
(d) Riddley, Straiter Empy, Reckman Bessup, and Lorna Elswint.

15. In the Goodparley/Orfing show, how does Eusa lose all his knowledge?
(a) Mr. Clevver steals the book with the knowledge.
(b) Eusa's enemies steal it.
(c) Eusa loses it in a fire.
(d) Mr. Clevver puts the knowledge in the box and takes it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the people of the village sing around the fire on the evening Brooder Walker died?

2. How old is the albino?

3. What happens to the three people in the narrator's story?

4. Who dies in the village the same day that the men are trying to remove the object from the hole?

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

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