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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 Two ends with which of the following?
(a) “This impossible world.”
(b) “The girl is gone.”
(c) “The child had hold of one of the goat’s ears.”
(d) “Falling, falling, falling.”

2. Chapter Ten begins with which of the following?
(a) “Answelica was a goat with teeth that were the mirror of her soul.”
(b) “The day after her fever broke.”
(c) “He illuminated the letter B.”
(d) “She tried not to think about what she could not remember.”

3. Chapter Twenty-two begins with which of the following?
(a) “Slowly, Jack Dory lowered the stool legs to the ground.”
(b) “Jack Dory belonged to no one.”
(c) “In the same village as Jack Dory.”
(d) “Jack Dory sat under the eaves of Granny Bibspeak’s hut.”

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

5. In Chapter Thirteen, what question does Bibspeak not want to ask?
(a) “And your mother?”
(b) “And the goat?”
(c) “And your father?”
(d) “And you?”

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter Eight begins with which of the following?

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

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

4. An illustration of which of the following precedes Book the Second?

5. Which of the following is illustrated in Chapter Ten?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. In Chapter Eight, what does Beatryce first discuss with *Answelica*?

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

9. How does Edik note feeling about hearing his father’s voice?

10. What reason does Edik give for having been in a field with Answelica early in Chapter Three?

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