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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Front Matter and Book the First.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are Edik’s first words in the novel?
(a) “Have mercy upon us.”
(b) “Surely, such beauty means something.”
(c) “Surely, it is evidence of something.”
(d) “Some demon occupies that eye.”

2. Chapter Four begins with which of the following?
(a) “She dreamed.”
(b) “Answelica stood next to the child in a ferocious, protective pose.”
(c) “In those moments when she was awake, she remembered.”
(d) “Brother Edik’s task in the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing was to illuminate.”

3. Chapter Twelve begins with which of the following?
(a) “The day after her fever broke.”
(b) “A child. Next to the goat.”
(c) “All of this took place during a time of war.”
(d) “Answelica was a goat with teeth that were the mirror of her soul.”

4. Which of the following illustrations is at the end of Chapter Two?
(a) A shorn-headed girl.
(b) A mermaid hairbrush.
(c) A goat curled up with a girl.
(d) A scrap of writing.

5. Book the First ends with which of the following?
(a) “Answelica was a goat with teeth that were the mirror of her soul.”
(b) “Brother Edik’s task in the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing was to illuminate.”
(c) “His dark robes gave off an oily sheen in the light from the candles that flickered around the throne of the king.”
(d) “Ideally, most ideally, the goat would go with her.”

Short Answer Questions

1. With what mark does Answelica leave Edik?

2. In Chapter Seven, what does Beatryce remember?

3. To whom does DiCamillo dedicate the book?

4. Which of the following epithets does Edik hear his father’s voice call him?

5. Chapter Ten begins with which of the following?

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