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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Eusa claim in the Goodparley/Eusa show?

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

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

4. How did the man and woman in Lorna's story get the 1st knowing?

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

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

4. 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?

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

6. How did people treat Riddley after his father's cremation?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare the Eusa show to the Punch show. How are they different? How are they alike? Why are Orfing and Eusa doing a Punch show instead of a Eusa show? What does the change in shows indicate about the future of Riddley's world?

Essay Topic 2

Up until Riddley goes to Fork Stoan with Lissener, Riddley has been against Goodparley's plan to bring back technology. In Chapter 13, when Riddley and Lissener see old machines nearly intact, the sight makes Riddley cry. Why do the machines cause Riddley to have such a strong reaction? What does Riddley understand about the word shynin when he sees the machines? Why does the sight of the machines help him understand what has been lost? How does his sudden understanding of Eusa, Eusa's head and the Littl Shyning Man make him want to get the shyning Power back? Why does he want to be like those who had boats in the air and picters on the wind? Why does he want to see the shyning weals turning? Why does he no longer want to be against Goodparley's plan?

Essay Topic 3

In Chapter 10, Riddley says that "1ce the kids start singing at you thas a cern kinyd of track youre on nor there aint to much you can do about it." Compare what Nimbel Potter sings about Riddley at the beginning of Chapter 10 and what the kid sings about Riddley when Riddley leaves Weaping Form. Does Riddley want to be on the track referred to in Chapter 10? Does he want to be on the track referred to in the last chapter? How are the two songs alike? How are they different? Did the song in Chapter 10 hint at what was to come for Riddley? Does the song in the last chapter hint at what is to come?

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