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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After Boone escapes in Chapter 4, what activity does he and Simon take up?
(a) Raising crops.
(b) Attacking caravans.
(c) Hunting Big Game.
(d) Stealing horses from the Indians.

2. How does Yaeger die?
(a) He is attacked by the Spanish.
(b) He falls from a tree.
(c) He is attacked by the British.
(d) He is attacked by Indians.

3. What offer does Simon refuse in Chapter 4?
(a) To go on a hunting expedition with Boone.
(b) To join with the British.
(c) To marry Boone's daughter.
(d) To emigrate.

4. How much land does Simon offer to each of his family and neighbors to return with him to Kentucky?
(a) 1,000 acres.
(b) 10 acres.
(c) 1 acre.
(d) 100 acres.

5. In Chapter 2, what does General Dunmore hope to do?
(a) Defeat the Spanish.
(b) Make peace with the colonists.
(c) Make peace with the Indians.
(d) Raise an army to defeat the Indians.

6. What town do the Kentucky Colonists retreat to in Chapter 5?
(a) Cincinnati.
(b) Detroit.
(c) Louisville.
(d) New York.

7. Who does John Yaeger say that he lived with for many years?
(a) The British.
(b) The Spanish.
(c) The Indians.
(d) The Inuit.

8. What does Colonel David Williamson decide to do with the Moravian Indians?
(a) Let them go.
(b) Massacre them.
(c) Grant them land.
(d) Arrest them all.

9. What happens to Daniel Boone's daughter?
(a) She marries an Indian.
(b) She marries a British officer.
(c) She is captured by the British.
(d) She is captured by Indians.

10. What does the adopted Blue Jacket want to see happen?
(a) War with the Spanish.
(b) War with the Whites.
(c) War with the settlers.
(d) War with the British.

11. What name did the protagonist’s mother want to call him originally?
(a) Bill.
(b) Eustace.
(c) Allan.
(d) Benjamin.

12. What are Tomahawk Improvements?
(a) A means of felling trees better.
(b) A means of making better weapons.
(c) A means of claiming a land for your own.
(d) A means of felling trees better.

13. What does Simon immediately notice about Western Kentucky?
(a) The massive amounts of game.
(b) The strange animals.
(c) The strange plants.
(d) The amount of Indians living there.

14. In Chapter 4, who is Girty about to work for?
(a) The Americans.
(b) The Spanish.
(c) The Indians.
(d) The British.

15. What job does Simon get after saving Strader?
(a) Officer.
(b) Miller.
(c) Miner.
(d) Surveyor with the Greathouse expedition.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Thomas Bullitt negotiate with the Chilahgawtha Indians in Chapter 2?

2. What name does Simon change his name to, in order to con some food and clothes from a neighbor?

3. Why does Blue Jacket sneak into the white settlement in Chapter 6?

4. What is distinct about the Moravian Indians?

5. Who is impressed at Simon's shooting in Chapter 1?

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