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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 Durster say to anger Riddley at the diggings?

2. Where does Riddley hide the yellerboy stone?

3. What do Riddley and Lissener talk about as they walk on their first evening together?

4. How does the Orfing/Walker show end?

5. What does Riddley learn that he and Goodparley share?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What do Orfing and Riddley do after Granser and Goodparley die?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Write about the Eusa story. What is the Eusa story? What is it describing? Use examples from the novel where the story of Eusa is presented and explained. Why do you think there are men from the Mincery that go around telling the Eusa story? Why do you think there are connexion men to help explain the Eusa story? Do you think the story will change after all that has happened in the novel?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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