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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why is the albino at the digging?
(a) He wanted to be sure the big thing was broken up properly.
(b) He came to put on a Eusa show.
(c) He needed timber cut for a project he was building at Widders Dump.
(d) He came to pay his respects to Riddley.

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

4. What happened to Eusa's wife after he split the atom?
(a) She died.
(b) Men on a boat took her.
(c) She left him.
(d) Mr. Clevver killed her.

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

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

7. What does Lorna say that Brooder was connected to?
(a) A shovel, leaver poal and digging up Bad Time.
(b) His work.
(c) The people of Widders Dump.
(d) His son, his village, and his friends.

8. What does Eusa claim in the Goodparley/Eusa show?
(a) That he split the Littl Man.
(b) That he did not drop bombs.
(c) That he killed Mr. Clevver.
(d) That he never had the knowledge.

9. What does Lorna say happened to the air boats?
(a) People sabotaged them.
(b) They ran out of fuel after the 1 Big 1.
(c) They were destroyed in the 1 Big 1.
(d) They got to space stations and the people on them died.

10. Who are the characters in the story Riddley remembers from his 7th or 8th year?
(a) Eusa and Mr. Clevver.
(b) Punch and Pooty.
(c) Folleree and Folleroo.
(d) Eusa, salting bloak, Littl Shyning Man, and Mr. Clevver.

11. What is the first thing Riddley talked about when he began his reveal?
(a) Mr. Clevver.
(b) Eusa's head.
(c) Littl Shyning Man.
(d) The black cloth with smoke and flames behind Eusa.

12. What did Riddley say as the villagers stood around the fire the evening his father died?
(a) He talked about how he would miss his father.
(b) He thanked everyone for the things they said about his father.
(c) He said he wished that his father had seen him kill the dog.
(d) He did not say anything.

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

14. What does Riddley think when he first sees the Eusa puppet during the Goodparley/Orfing show?
(a) This is a different puppet than usual.
(b) How his scar hurts.
(c) That thing with no name that looks out through people's eye holes
(d) Eusa has no eyes.

15. What does Lorna say bonfires were used for?
(a) To keep away wild dogs.
(b) To celebrate a good harvest.
(c) To call back those who left in the air ships to fetch the people left behind.
(d) To keep everyone warm.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Riddley's father when he died?

2. How is the Eusa story different than usual in the Goodparley/Orfing show?

3. in Lorna's story, how did the man and woman's lives change after they got the 1st knowing?

4. What is the 1st knowing that Lorna refers to?

5. Who comes for the wotcher, the night after the burning?

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