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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 rumor spreads in 1851?

2. When does Becky jump into a sleigh with Levi?

3. Where does Larkin find gold in Chapter 7?

4. Who takes over McKeag's job as an interpreter?

5. How does the press react to Leban Asher's plan to save the Native Americans from starvation?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happens after Pasquinel dies?

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

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

5. Why does Levi decide to turn around and go back east?

6. What is Pasquinel's relationship with Brockweiss?

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

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

9. What does Oliver Seccumbe propose to Levi in Chapter 8?

10. What does John Skimmerhorn do when he meets up with Lost Eagle's tribe in Chapter 8?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the fulfillment of race roles in this novel. Consider the lives of the characters who are half Native American.

Essay Topic 2

What role do women in play in this novel? How do they help to develop the plot?

Essay Topic 3

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

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