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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 does Mary do when she walks away from the spring camp?

2. Who invites Mary to move into his home?

3. Who presents Mary with a business proposition?

4. What does Mary do with Bettie's clothing?

5. Who buys Mary during the slave auction?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Ghetel's insatiable appetite problematic for Mary?

2. How are Mary and Ghetel similar?

3. How do Mary's beliefs about Indians keep her safe throughout her experience living in Indian territory?

4. Why does LaPlante buy Mary?

5. Why does Mary want Ghetel go along to Draper's Meadow?

6. What does Mary fear the Indians will do to her unborn child when they attack?

7. Why does Mary's laughter at the Chief's joking about birth anger Bettie?

8. Why does it upset Mary that the Indians are given a hero's welcome when they return?

9. Why does Mary cry when she makes the decision to escape?

10. What does Bettie think of Mary for allowing Otter Girl to nurse the baby?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Several times throughout Follow the River, Mary states she won't tell certain things. Why would she want to keep those things secret?

Essay Topic 2

How does the tomahawk become a symbol of Native Americans as a tool and a weapon in Follow the River? How are the Indians portrayed as both a threat and a useful people?

Essay Topic 3

Will Ingles admits that Mary's feat is one he could not have done. Explain why George Washington and the Harmon sons doubt Mary's story.

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