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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 happens to Captain Crawford in Chapter 6?

2. Who is Ellen Cummings?

3. What is distinct about the Moravian Indians?

4. Whom does Simon first meet on the road after running away?

5. What happens to the Edgars in Chapter 5?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to the Moravian Indians in Chapter 6?

2. What happens to Yaeger and George Strader at the beginning of Chapter 2?

3. Who surveys the site for the first city in Kentucky?

4. How does Simon Girty try to stop the retaliation in Chapter 6?

5. How does Simon find out in Chapter 5 that he can use his real name once again?

6. In Chapter 3, who are the colonists at war with?

7. How does Simon's father die?

8. How is Simon adopted into the Shawnee tribe?

9. Why has Simon got so much land in Chapter 6?

10. What is the Shawnee Nation divided over in Chapter 5?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe Simon Kenton as a child. Describe Tecumseh as a child. How are the two similar? Dissimilar?

Essay Topic 2

What do you think about Blue Jacket's conversion to the Shawnee tribe? Does Blue Jacket lose some of his own heritage in doing so? Assess Blue Jacket's character in the book.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Simon Kenton's wilful stubbornness as a character. At first it appears to be a flaw in childhood, only to be a virtue in his later career as a frontiersman. How would you agree or disagree with this?

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