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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Some people left the community.
(d) The group moved from Crippel the Farn and came to How Fents.

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

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

4. Who follows Riddley and the other men to Widders Dump the day after his father's death?
(a) The children from How Fents.
(b) Lorna Elswint.
(c) Bernt Arse Pack.
(d) Rockman Bessup.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lorna say bonfires were used for?

2. What huge traveling party arrives at Widders Dump the day after Brooder dies?

3. What does Riddley think when he first sees the Eusa puppet during the Goodparley/Orfing show?

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

5. What happened when the people in Lorna's story put in the 1 Big 1?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Lorna talk about in her tel at Brooder's cremation?

2. What does Riddley do with the dog he kills?

3. Why does Riddley get a scar?

4. Goodparley and Orfing do a wotcher with Riddley. Describe the ritual.

5. What happened three days after Riddley's naming day?

6. In the Goodparley/Orfing show, what does Eusa do in the "time back."

7. During the wotcher, Goodparley tells Riddley that there's a time for everything and that the time for moving crowds is past. What is Goodparley referring to?

8. What was the second thing that happened after Brooder died?

9. What does Lorna tell Riddley after they freshen the Luck?

10. Describe the person that Chalker Marchman was talking to when Riddley and the crew get to the digging on their second work day.

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