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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. Which of the following is illustrated in Chapter Ten?
(a) A shorn-headed girl.
(b) A mermaid hairbrush.
(c) A goat headbutting a monk.
(d) A goat curled up with a girl.

2. To whom does Blackall dedicate the book?
(a) DiCamillo.
(b) Charles.
(c) Abelard.
(d) Blackall.

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

4. In Chapter Nine, what is noted as being illegal?
(a) Teaching women to read and write.
(b) Teaching commoners swordcraft.
(c) Teaching old dogs new tricks.
(d) Teaching men to read and write.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter Ten begins with which of the following?

2. In Chapter Four, Edik guesses the child is no older than which age?

3. At the end of Chapter Twelve, a prophecy is noted that a girl child will come and do which of the following?

4. What are Edik’s first words in the novel?

5. At the end of Chapter Three, “ominous” most nearly means which of the following?

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