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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 would Riddley like to do with the hide of the dog that he killed?
(a) Make it into a coat.
(b) Give it to Lorna.
(c) Burn it.
(d) Make a hood with the dog's teeth all around it.

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

3. 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.

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

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 are struck by lighting.
(c) They freeze to death.
(d) The child is killed and eaten and the parents leave the next morning.

Short Answer Questions

1. After he splits the atom, why doesn't Eusa know how many changes there are to come?

2. Which of the Eusa showmen is said to be one who interprets things?

3. When Eusa finds a stag, why won't it run from him in the written Eusa story?

4. Where does Riddley get a scar?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. After hearing the story "Why the Dog Wont Show Its Eyes," it appears that it was not Eusa who made the 1 Big 1. In the story, who made the 1 Big 1?

2. Goodparley and Orfing show up at Widders Dump to do a show. What does Riddley say about these men?

3. Why is Riddley upset when he is working to break up the big thing that killed his father?

4. After the Goodparley/Orfing show, what do people do?

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

6. In the Goodparley/Orfing show, why won't Eusa come up at first?

7. In the written Eusa story, Eusa sees the Littl Shynin Man after the 1 Big 1 is released. What does the Littl Man tell Eusa?

8. 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?

9. Why are the children playing Black Pack at the beginning of Chapter 3?

10. In the Goodparley/Orfing show, what does Mr. Clevver do?

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