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Q1 of 31
What is the name of the boy who discovers Stig?
Q2 of 31
Where does Stig live?
- In an old farmhouse
- Under the floor of the village hall
- In a chalk pit at the bottom of Barney's grandparents' garden
- In a cave in the forest
Q3 of 31
What does Stig appear to be?
- A Stone Age boy who has somehow survived into the modern world
- A robot built from old materials
- A time-travelling scientist
- An alien who has landed on Earth
Q4 of 31
How does Barney first fall into the chalk pit?
- He falls through the edge of the pit
- He trips over a stone
- He is pushed in by bullies
- He deliberately climbs down
Q5 of 31
What is remarkable about Stig's home?
- It is an exact replica of a Stone Age dwelling
- It is full of electronic gadgets
- It is built entirely underground with no windows
- It is made entirely from discarded objects people have thrown away
Q6 of 31
What does Barney give Stig that he finds particularly fascinating?
- A pair of glasses
- A watch
- A penknife
- A torch
Q7 of 31
Who is Barney staying with during the story?
- His aunt and uncle
- His teacher
- His parents
- His grandparents
Q8 of 31
What does Stig help Barney do on one occasion?
- Defeat some bullies from the village
- Catch a fox that has been raiding the henhouse
- Find his way home after getting lost
- Build a treehouse
Q9 of 31
What is the name of Barney's sister?
Q10 of 31
What is the tone of Stig of the Dump?
- Serious and educational about prehistoric life
- Light, funny and gentle with a sense of wonder
- Sad and melancholy
- Frightening and dark throughout
Q11 of 31
What skill does Stig demonstrate that impresses Barney most?
- He can run faster than any animal
- He can light fire with just two sticks
- His ability to make and use tools from found objects
- He can communicate with animals
Q12 of 31
What does the chalk pit symbolise in the novel?
- Industrial pollution and environmental damage
- The social divisions between rich and poor
- The gap between the present and the distant past
- Danger and death
Q13 of 31
Does anyone else apart from Barney and Soo meet Stig?
- Yes, Barney's grandparents also meet him
- Yes, Barney's teacher meets Stig during a school trip
- Yes, the whole village eventually discovers him
- No, adults in the book never directly encounter Stig
Q14 of 31
When was Stig of the Dump first published?
Q15 of 31
What does the novel suggest about intelligence?
- Intelligence can take many forms — Stig's practical genius is equal to any academic ability
- Intelligence is about reading and writing
- Children are always more intelligent than adults
- Only modern education produces true intelligence
Q16 of 31
How does King create a sense of magic in the novel?
- Through lots of frightening supernatural events
- By having characters explain the magic in scientific detail
- Through elaborate magical spells and prophecies
- By treating the impossible as completely normal and matter-of-fact
Q17 of 31
What does Barney's easy acceptance of Stig say about children?
- Children are better at accepting difference and the unusual without prejudice
- Children are gullible and believe anything
- Children make up imaginary friends when lonely
- Children are more fearful than adults
Q18 of 31
What is the setting's time period?
- The Victorian era, around 1880
- The 1960s, when the book was written
- The 1980s
- The 1930s, just before World War II
Q19 of 31
What type of story is Stig of the Dump?
- A realistic school story
- A science fiction novel about time travel
- A magical realist story where the impossible is treated as ordinary
- A historical novel set entirely in prehistoric times
Q20 of 31
What does the novel suggest about friendship?
- Friendship can transcend all barriers of time, language and culture
- The best friendships are between people who are very similar
- Friendships between children are not real or lasting
- True friends must share the same language and background
Q21 of 31
Which of the following best describes Stig's character?
- Foolish and easily confused
- Clever, resourceful and gentle
- Dangerous and unpredictable
- Fierce and territorial
Q22 of 31
What does the ending of the novel suggest?
- Stig is revealed to have been imaginary all along
- Stig disappears forever, making the friendship seem like a dream
- Barney and Soo encounter Stig once more but in a clearly different, dreamlike context suggesting the boundary between past and present is thin
- The friendship continues unchanged into adulthood
Q23 of 31
How does Stig communicate with Barney?
- Through writing on the chalk pit walls
- Through gestures, actions and a few simple sounds
- Through dreams and visions
- Through a magical translation device
Q24 of 31
What literary device does King use throughout the novel?
- Dramatic irony — the reader knows more than the characters
- Free indirect discourse — giving Barney's thoughts in third person
- Epistolary form — the story told through letters
- Unreliable narration
Q25 of 31
What does 'chalk pit' suggest about the novel's geography?
- The story is set near the coast
- The setting is in a chalk-rich area of southern England — the North or South Downs
- The setting is in a coal-mining area of northern England
- The story takes place in Wales
Q26 of 31
How does the novel treat the contrast between prehistoric and modern life?
- Modern life is presented as clearly superior in every way
- Modern life is shown to be inferior and destructive
- The contrast celebrates Stig's practical skills while gently satirising modern wastefulness
- The prehistoric world is presented as violent and frightening
Q27 of 31
What role does Barney's grandmother play in the novel?
- She represents adult disbelief — she never quite sees what Barney sees
- She is the main antagonist who tries to remove Stig
- She also has a special connection to the prehistoric world
- She is barely mentioned and plays no significant role
Q28 of 31
Which best describes King's prose style in Stig of the Dump?
- Formal and distanced, maintaining adult authority
- Complex and ironic, aimed at adult readers
- Dense and poetic with elaborate imagery
- Plain, direct and child-centred — seen from ground level
Q29 of 31
What is unusual about how Stig's existence is explained?
- A wise old character explains the situation to Barney in detail
- The novel never explains how Stig exists in the present day — the impossible is simply accepted
- A magic spell at the beginning explains the premise
- The novel provides a detailed scientific explanation using time theory
Q30 of 31
What does the novel suggest about the nature of creativity?
- Only ancient cultures were truly creative
- Creativity belongs only to artists and professional makers
- True creativity is about making something valuable from what others have discarded
- Creativity requires expensive materials and formal education
Q31 of 31
How does King use Barney's outsider status to develop the novel's themes?
- The novel does not present Barney as an outsider
- His outsider status makes him sad and he wishes he were back with his friends at home
- Barney's outsider status makes him aggressive and resentful
- Staying with grandparents frees Barney from his normal routines, giving him the freedom to explore and befriend Stig