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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. Where did Diana's mother die?

2. Where is Kin's mother?

3. How long does Kin stop to eat huckleberries when he is trying to catch up with Yance and the girls after crossing the river?

4. What tribe is Tenaco from?

5. What does Kin tell Yance to do while he is gone?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Kin believe it is important to read?

2. Where does Kin tell Diana that she and her father can go if she is not welcome back at Cape Ann?

3. Why does the Musketaquid River worry Kin?

4. How did Henry learn to speak English?

5. What does Diana think of Kin when she first meets him?

6. Why does Kin believe that something is on the trail he watches while he hunts?

7. When Yance is in the stocks, what does a sailor tell him about Pittingel?

8. What evidence is available that could cause Diana to be brought up before the assises?

9. Why does Yance say that he and Kin will be alone looking for the kidnapped girls?

10. Why did the northern settlers put Yance in the stocks and how did he get free?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Rafe Bogardus, his profession, his character and how he became a killer.

Essay Topic 2

In Jamaica, people like Henry are called maroons. Discuss who maroons are, their lives and how they help Kin and Henry.

Essay Topic 3

Kin experiences a number of conflicts--internal and external. Discuss conflicts that Kin experiences in the book.

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