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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. Why does Levi buy the Conestoga wagon?

2. What is Pasquinel doing when he is killed?

3. In Chapter 8, what does John Skimmerhorn's group lose during their trip across the desert?

4. What does McKeag say about Lucinda after Pasquinel's death?

5. How many horses does Lame Beaver keep after stealing them from an opposing tribe?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 7, how do the Native Americans react to the treaty?

2. How does Levi earn the right to make a marriage certificate for him and Lucinda?

3. What does Levi do when he finds a group of emigrants heading back east?

4. During his trip west, what happens when Levi finds the family that was killed by Pawnee?

5. According to the narrator, what happened to the rattlesnake when man encountered it in the American west?

6. How is Jacques described in Chapter 5?

7. In Chapter 1, what task is Dr. Lewis Vernor asked to do?

8. What happens when Lame Beaver fights Never-Death?

9. How does Levi feel about selling the horses during his trip west?

10. How does Skimmerhorn respond to the Native American starvation?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast life outside of Centennial with life inside.

Essay Topic 2

Choose two generations that lived in Centennial and compare and contrast them.

Essay Topic 3

What is symbolic about hunting in this novel? What does hunting represent? How are people who hunt described?

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