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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter Eight, which of the following names does Beatryce posit for Answelica before learning the goat’s true name?
(a) Blechdor.
(b) Braggadocio.
(c) Burnet.
(d) Blaggart.

2. Edik sees what on the feet of the child curled up against Answelica in Chapter Three?
(a) Dirt.
(b) Manure.
(c) Blood.
(d) Shoes.

3. How long does Bibspeak live after taking Jack in?
(a) 4-score years.
(b) 40 years.
(c) 4 years.
(d) 14 years.

4. Which of the following epithets does Edik hear his father’s voice call him?
(a) Snaggle-toothed reprobate.
(b) Demon-minded floozie.
(c) Bow-legged layabout.
(d) Broken-eyed coward.

5. Chapter Three begins with which of the following?
(a) “She dreamed.”
(b) “A child. Next to the goat.”
(c) “Brother Edik’s task in the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing was to illuminate.”
(d) “Answelica stood next to the child in a ferocious, protective pose.”

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter Nine begins with which of the following?

2. With which of the following does the novel’s epigraph end?

3. Chapter Eleven begins with which of the following?

4. Book the Second ends with which of the following?

5. What are Beatryce’s first words to Jack?

Short Essay Questions

1. At the end of Chapter Thirteen, how long does Bibspeak make Jack repeat his name?

2. At the beginning of Chapter Fourteen, what sobriquets does Bibspeak apply to Jack?

3. What reason does Jack give for not wanting to know a secret in Chapter Fifteen?

4. In Chapter Four, how does Edik initially assess the condition of the child who had been curled up next to Answelica?

5. In Chapter Nine, whom does Edik note expecting to be literate?

6. How does Edik describe the child’s crying in Chapter Three?

7. In Chapter Thirteen, what reason does Jack give for his family’s flight?

8. What job does Jack have in his village, and why?

9. Why does Beatryce love Edik’s roving eye?

10. Why do the monks purpose to send Beatryce on the errand to Jack’s village?

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