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.
Why did the houses in the town of Bonifacio look like the nests of wild birds?
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 clinging to the mountain, overlooking the terrible passage.
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?
Death
Revenge
Sadness
Danger
Why did the widow Saverini shut herself away for the night beside the body of her son?
She had no one else to sit with her.
Because the dog was howling all the time.
So that she could prepare the body to be buried.
She wanted to be alone.
Why did the widow Saverini need to carry out the vendetta quickly?
To keep her promise to her son.
Nicolas Ravolati was being closely followed by police.
She was a weak old woman near to death.
Her son had neither brothers nor cousins to help her.
Why did the widow Saverini go to church the morning after getting the idea for her vendetta?
Because it was Sunday.
To ask for forgiveness for what she was about to do.
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 wanted to kill Nicolas Ravolati.
It did not like sleeping outside in a barrel.
Why did the widow Saverini make a straw man?
In memory of her son.
To remind her of her dead husband.
To teach the dog to eat from it.
To teach the dog to attack.
Why did the widow Saverini take a sausage with her on the way to Longosardo?
To eat on the way.
To give Nicolas Ravolati so that the dog would kill him
So the smell would make the dog stay hungry.
As payment for the fisherman who carried her across the passage.
Where was Nicolas Ravolati when she found him?
At home.
At work.
In a baker's shop.
Sitting in front of his door.
Which of these is NOT a likely moral to the story?
Two wrongs do not make something right.
A dog is man's best friend.
Revenge can take over and destroy your life.
By using revenge to hurt someone, you are also hurting yourself.