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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 27 and 28.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Mary Jane carrying in her basket?
(a) A baby.
(b) Several bottles of champagne.
(c) A picnic lunch.
(d) A puppy.

2. Why was childbirth serious among the Taltos?
(a) It was considered a sacred act.
(b) It involved pain.
(c) It took weeks of labor.
(d) It could create an insane child.

3. What do the Taltos do to a child born of the mating between a Taltos and human that survives?
(a) Accept the child into the Taltos.
(b) Force the child to live among the Taltos but not accept it as a Taltos.
(c) Kill the child.
(d) Ignore the child and the human must care for it.

4. Why does Marklin hesitate to go inside the Motherhouse?
(a) He wants to return to London and does not want to be detained.
(b) He is afraid of Stuart.
(c) He is afraid of being punished for Aaron's death.
(d) He has a premonition.

5. What is one thing Ash worried about for his group of Taltos?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Quarrels among them.
(c) The humans would kill them.
(d) The humans would mate with them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the humans call the Taltos when they first begin a village among the humans?

2. What do Ash and other Taltos eventually realize about humans?

3. Who is Lasher?

4. What does Granny say usually happens to a walking baby?

5. What can the Taltos recognize on sight concerning witches?

(see the answer key)

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