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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. How many Eusa folk are there according to Lissener?

2. What time of day was it when Riddley left the dead town after running away from the work group?

3. As Riddley and Lissener creep amongst the rubble, what does Riddley learn about himself?

4. What does Riddley call the stone face he sees in Cambry?

5. How does Lissener find his way to where he and Riddley are going?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Lissener and Riddley find near the sea?

2. What does Riddley find in the diggings the third day he goes to them?

3. Describe the Punch show that Orfing and Riddley do at Weaping Form.

4. What happens when Riddley walks ahead of the other men when they are jobbing for a second time?

5. Describe Riddley's travels after Granser and Goodparley die.

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

7. What does Durster Potter say about Riddley's father?

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

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

10. Why do Lissener and Riddley decide to separate?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the Eusa folk and their role in the story. Who are the Eusa folk? How many of them are there? Why have them been preserved? What do they look like? Where do they live while the new Ardship is growing up? What do they do every twelve years? Why are they, and especially the Ardship, questioned? What knowledge does the Mincery hope they have? What knowledge do they have?

Essay Topic 2

Riddley goes through many changes in the novel. Explore each change. How does each change affect his life? How does each change affect his thinking? What changes will Riddley see in the future? Would you consider Riddley to be more mature at the end of the novel than he was at the beginning?

Essay Topic 3

Explore how the knowledge of how to produce gunpowder was preserved by the coal burners and the dyers. Why does it take everyone so long to realize that the coal burners and dyers have the knowledge? How does finding the yeller stones bring all the knowledge together? Now that the the knowledge is out in the open, will more and more people learn how to make gunpowder?

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