Choose the best answer for each question. At the end of the quiz, your score will appear here. Note: this quiz is based on the original story. Some of the questions and answers may not be applicable to our simplified story.
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Why did the houses in the town of Bonifacio look like the nests of wild birds?
The houses were clinging to the mountain, overlooking the terrible passage.
On the white mountain the houses, massed together, made an even whiter spot.
You could not see the small area of land the town was on, and parts of some houses hung over the sea
The houses were so high that the people in them looked like birds in their nests.
The literary term 'foreshadowing' is where an author puts something in a story about events that will come later in the plot. Now that you know the story, which is the best word for what is foreshadowed in the description of the view from the village houses?
Danger
Death
Revenge
Sadness
Why did the widow Saverini shut herself away for the night beside the body of her son?
She wanted to be alone.
She had no one else to sit with her.
So that she could prepare the body to be buried.
Because the dog was howling all the time.
Why did the widow Saverini need to carry out the vendetta quickly?
Her son had neither brothers nor cousins to help her.
To keep her promise to her son.
She was a weak old woman near to death.
Nicolas Ravolati was being closely followed by police.
Why did the widow Saverini go to church the morning after getting the idea for her vendetta?
To ask for forgiveness for what she was about to do.
Because it was Sunday.
To sleep prostrate on the floor.
To ask for help to carry out the plan.
Why was the dog wild with anger and barking madly shortly after this?
It missed its master.
It was very hungry.
It did not like sleeping outside in a barrel.
It wanted to kill Nicolas Ravolati.
Why did the widow Saverini make a straw man?
To teach the dog to eat from it.
To teach the dog to attack.
To remind her of her dead husband.
In memory of her son.
Why did the widow Saverini take a sausage with her on the way to Longosardo?
As payment for the fisherman who carried her across the passage.
To eat on the way.
So the smell would make the dog stay hungry.
To give Nicolas Ravolati so that the dog would kill him
Where was Nicolas Ravolati when she found him?
At work.
In a baker's shop.
At home.
Sitting in front of his door.
Which of these is NOT a likely moral to the story?
A dog is man's best friend.
Two wrongs do not make something right.
Revenge can take over and destroy your life.
By using revenge to hurt someone, you are also hurting yourself.