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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. Which of the following is illustrated in Chapter Ten?
(a) A mermaid hairbrush.
(b) A shorn-headed girl.
(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) Blackall.
(c) Abelard.
(d) Charles.

3. Book the Second ends with which of the following?
(a) “Jack Dory belonged to no one.”
(b) “How could anyone bear it?”
(c) “The request that Jack Dory brought to the monastery was deemed by all the monks.”
(d) “I will go and ask your mother a few questions, too.”

4. Which of the following illustrations precedes Book the First?
(a) A goat curled up with a girl.
(b) A shorn-headed girl.
(c) A mermaid hairbrush.
(d) A goat headbutting a monk.

5. What are Beatryce’s first words to Jack?
(a) “I did not know she could be outwitted.”
(b) “Hello.”
(c) “You outwitted her.”
(d) “I am speaking with the goat.”

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter Twenty-two begins with which of the following?

2. Which of the following does Edik pack for Beatryce’s departure with Jack?

3. Which of the following illustrations is at the end of Chapter Two?

4. In Chapter Seven, what does Beatryce remember?

5. Book the First begins with which of the following?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In Chapter Twelve, how does Edik propose concealing Beatryce?

3. Early in Chapter One, what is portrayed as among Answelica’s favorite games?

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

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

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

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

8. Why does Jack start at the approach of horses to his village?

9. How long does Chapter Thirteen note that Bibspeak had been in the world?

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

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