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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 is the name of Rob's uncle's mine?

2. How many sheep do Rob and Lucas have by the fall of 1896?

3. How much money did Lucas send to his family every Christmas?

4. When do Rob and Judith marry?

5. What type of meat do Rob and Angus eat during the winter of 1890-91?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why isn't Angus able to sleep on water?

2. How do Rob and Angus decide whose house to build first?

3. What progress does Angus describe that occurs in 1891?

4. Why do the bumboats dock against the steamship Rob and Angus are taking to America?

5. Why is a vendor selling limes to passengers on Rob's and Angus's ship?

6. Describe Anna Ramsay.

7. How do Angus and Rob have to travel to Gros Ventre to find Lucas?

8. What did Angus's father's grandfather, Alexander McCaskill, help to build?

9. How did Lucas lose his hands?

10. How are Rob and Angus listed on the passenger list of the James Watt?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the relationship between Angus and Anna Ramsay.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the influenza epidemic and how it affected Scotch Heaven.

Essay Topic 3

As the years pass, Angus sees shades of change everywhere that he looks. Discuss the changes that Angus sees in Scotch Heaven and the areas around him.

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