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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Alvin invite when he dug in anger?

2. What did Mistress Modesty imagine when she thought of Peggy's pain?

3. What does Mistress Modesty ask Peggy to be?

4. What did Old Peg Guester name the Black boy-baby?

5. What did the lowest kind of creature do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the difference between Hank and other dowsers?

2. What did Cavil do that he felt was godly and righteous?

3. Why couldn't Alvin simply fill the well that he had dug and make Hank Dowsers' well good?

4. What does Peggy say that Mistress Modesty's knack is?

5. Who was it that stopped Alvin from being overcome by the Unmaker?

6. Why wasn't Peggy as dressed up as some of the other girls at the ball?

7. What decision changed little Peggy's life, and in what way did it change?

8. Why did Alvin dig out a well that he knew wouldn't do any good?

9. Why does Peggy not admire her father for helping Black slaves get north and free?

10. What had White folk found a way to calculate?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss why having her own suite was so important to Miss Larner. What couldn't she have done while living at the roadhouse? Why did this desire to live alone so upset Old Peg?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Mistress Modesty's statement "much of what is best in me, your father gave me" in reference to Horace Guester. What did she mean by this, and how is this revealed to the reader?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Makepeace's treatment of Alvin while he was an indentured apprentice. What measures have come into place since Alvin's time to protect the interests of apprentices in North America?

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