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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. Chapter Twenty begins with which of the following?
(a) “Slowly, Jack Dory lowered the stool legs to the ground.”
(b) “Beatryce held herself straighter.”
(c) “Jack Dory sat under the eaves of Granny Bibspeak’s hut.”
(d) “But she was afraid.”

2. Chapter Twelve begins with which of the following?
(a) “A child. Next to the goat.”
(b) “The day after her fever broke.”
(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.”

3. Which of the following is the name of one of Beatryce’s brothers?
(a) Jakob.
(b) Asop.
(c) Hans.
(d) Wilhelm.

4. Chapter Six begins with which of the following?
(a) “Brother Edik’s task in the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing was to illuminate.”
(b) “Brother Edik’s problems were compounded.”
(c) “What she saw when she awoke was sunlight streaming through one small window that was up very high.”
(d) “In those moments when she was awake, she remembered.”

5. Chapter Five begins with which of the following?
(a) “What she saw when she awoke was sunlight streaming through one small window that was up very high.”
(b) “She dreamed.”
(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.”

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does the soldier lying abed in Jack’s village have on his face?

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

3. Book the Second begins with which of the following?

4. Edik sees what on the feet of the child curled up against Answelica in Chapter Three?

5. How long does Caddis allow for the child’s recovery?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Edik tardy in feeding Answelica?

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

3. In Chapter Eight, how does Edik describe the Chronicles of Sorrowing?

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

5. What does Beatryce think about as she prepares to take the soldier’s testimony in Jack’s village?

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

7. What story does Beatryce promise to tell of Edik’s mermaid?

8. At the end of Chapter Five, what does Beatryce think?

9. What reasons do the monks note for keeping Answelica alive?

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

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