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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Was it really the Littl Man who took Eusa's wife?
(a) No.
(b) Yes.
(c) Probably.
(d) No one knows.

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

4. What happens to the three people in the narrator's story?
(a) The child is killed and eaten and the parents leave the next morning.
(b) The child is killed and eaten and the parents are burned by fire.
(c) They freeze to death.
(d) They are struck by lighting.

5. 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) That Eusa did drop the bombs.
(d) This Eusa show was his first as connexion man.

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

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

8. At the digging why didn't the "littl witey bloak" want the girt big thing?
(a) It is the wrong type of metal.
(b) It is not Eusa's head.
(c) Because Riddley's father was killed by it.
(d) It will take too much manpower to get it out.

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

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

11. 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) On a pole on top of the gate house.
(d) They buried the dog.

12. When Eusa finds a stag, why won't it run from him in the written Eusa story?
(a) The stag is hurt.
(b) The stag is caught in a trap.
(c) The stag told him that nothing will run from Eusa anymore, but soon Eusa will run from everything.
(d) The stag is tied to a tree.

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

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

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first thing Riddley talked about when he began his reveal?

2. What does Lorna say happened to the air boats?

3. What does Lorna say that Brooder was connected to?

4. To whom does the narrator speak when he returns to his home on this first day of the novel?

5. What reason does Lorna give for the baby's death?

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