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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. What does de Maurepas call Old Hickory?
(a) Old Chestnut.
(b) Old Willow.
(c) Both of these.
(d) Neither of these.

2. What do the people who find Measure call him?
(a) A Red.
(b) A traitor.
(c) A renegade.
(d) A Spaniard.

3. For what does Measure keep wishing?
(a) Both of these.
(b) A good road.
(c) Neither of these.
(d) A horse.

4. Why do bears kill White trappers?
(a) The land rejects them.
(b) The land refuses to accept them.
(c) All of these.
(d) The land hates them.

5. How many of the Reds are left?
(a) Maybe a thousand.
(b) Maybe five-hundred.
(c) Maybe a hundred.
(d) Maybe two-thousand.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Measure reveal to Ta-Kumsaw?

2. Why does Alvin want to go with Ta-Kumsaw?

3. Whose insight had it been to send General Bonaparte from France?

4. What will happen when Becca's daughter takes her place?

5. Why does Frederic immediately put on the amulet?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Ta-Kumsaw convinced is the reason for Alvin's grief? What is Taleswapper's argument?

2. Why does La Fayette wish that Napoleon were merely a "vain posturer with a gift for seducing the loyalty of his betters"(266)?

3. How do Alvin and Measure differ in the way they view their family?

4. What does Alvin figure has happened when he explains what the Chok-Taw have done to the saddles?

5. What specifically hurts Alvin when he examines his brother?

6. What does Tenska-Tawa promise his people as they wait to die?

7. Why does La Fayette want Napoleon out of command?

8. How does Ta-Kumsaw survive wounds that would have felled any other man and how do the enemy soldiers react to this?

9. For what reasons does Frederic don the amulet?

10. Why doesn't Ta-Kumsaw walk away with his men when he has the chance?

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