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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 do Riddley and Lissener find as they walk closer to the center?

2. When the work crew returns to How Fents after Potter's mishap, what does Littl Nimbel Potter do when he sees Riddley?

3. After Goodparley and Granser die, where does Riddley go?

4. After he is cut down, what does Goodparley beg to be allowed to do with Riddley?

5. What story does Riddley write when he is in Cambry?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do Lissener and Riddley decide to separate?

2. What does Riddley do to Durster Potter and why?

3. What happens to Riddley when he jumps the fence after finding the little figure in the diggings?

4. What does Riddley learn about the Eusa folk as he and Lissener get to the outskirts of Fork Stone?

5. After Riddley leaves Cambry, he heads back to Fork Stone. Describe what he finds there.

6. What do the Eusa folk do during the some poasyum according to Lissener?

7. What does Flinter RIghtway tell Orfing and Riddley when they arrive at Weaping Form to do the Punch show?

8. After Riddley's first connexion, what was it like for him at breakfast?

9. After Riddley leaves Goodparley in Widdows Dump, who does Riddley meet on the road?

10. Riddley and Goodparley, meet Granser. How do Granser and Goodparley die?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Chapter 1, the reader first learns about the "Hart of the Wood." As Riddley first tells a story about the "Hart of the Wood," he mentions that the heart of the wood can mean three different things. Explain what each of these three things are using the description Riddley provides in Chapter 1. Also use other examples of the heart of the wood that are found throughout the novel. What does it mean in Chapter 15 when Riddley says that whenever he writes about the tree in the stone he will write "wud" and not "wood"?

Essay Topic 2

In Chapter 15, Riddley sees a drawing of Goodparley with the words Hoap of a Tree. Then later when Riddley finds Goodparley hung by his arms, Riddley asks if this is the Hoap of the Tree. Orfing says that it is. What is the significance of referring to Goodparley as the Hoap of the Tree? What is the Hoap of the Tree? Why is Goodparley compared to the Hoap of a Tree?

Essay Topic 3

Riddley often mentions the odors around him. Do these frequent references to the sense of smell make the scenes in the novel more realistic? Why or why not? List examples of times when Riddley mentions how something smells. How would you classify the scents in Riddley's world? What do the odors tell you about Riddley's world?

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