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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What story does the narrator tell in Chapter 1?
(a) The Hart of the Wood.
(b) His birth story.
(c) The Eusa story.
(d) The story of his mother's death.

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

3. Which of the Eusa showmen is said to be one who interprets things?
(a) Riddley.
(b) Belnot Phist.
(c) Goodparley.
(d) Orfing.

4. 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) Mr. Clevver will reward him greatly.
(c) He will build even more machines.
(d) He will have more power than anyone can imagine.

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

6. How did the man and woman in Lorna's story get the 1st knowing?
(a) They looked into the fire.
(b) They looked into the dog's eyes during a full moon.
(c) They looked into each others eyes.
(d) They looked into a goat's eyes.

7. Why has a large traveling party come to Widders Dump?
(a) To help break up the big thing.
(b) To do a Eusa show.
(c) To inspect the digging.
(d) To help with a building project at Widders Dump.

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

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

10. How many more changes will there be after the atom is split in the written Eusa story?
(a) Hundreds of changes.
(b) Five move.
(c) As many as are required.
(d) No one knows.

11. What is the 1st knowing that Lorna refers to?
(a) They learned cleverness.
(b) They knew the day.
(c) They knew how to use the dog to help them.
(d) They knew the night.

12. What time does Goodparley say is past the day after Brooder dies?
(a) Time for the Eusa story.
(b) Time for farming.
(c) Time for connexions.
(d) Time for foraging.

13. After the people in Lorna's story had the 1st knowing for a while what did they begin to wonder?
(a) How to make friends with other animals.
(b) How to store food.
(c) What the 2nd, 3rd, and other knowings might be like.
(d) What it would be like to look in the eyes of a deer.

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

15. Who was following the narrator and his companions on the day the novel begins?
(a) The leader of the Bernt Arse pack.
(b) The narrator's father.
(c) The narrator's best friend.
(d) The chard coal burners.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who plays the part of Eusa in the show put on the the Pry Mincer and Wes Mincer?

3. What does Riddley think after the Eusa show ends on the night he is scarred?

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

5. Who do the narrator and his companions pass as they walk by with their prize on the first day of the novel?

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