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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 Mary Draper's relationship to Bettie Draper?

2. Why does Will lie awake at night?

3. What happens to the two white captives marked for death?

4. What does the spring smell like that the Indians come to on the twelfth day?

5. What is Will Ingles' relationship to Matthew and John?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are some of the problems Mary may encounter on her trip home?

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

3. Why does Bettie become angry with Mary during the trip to the Indians' village?

4. How does Mary begin to erase her baby, Bettie Eleanor, from her memory and heart?

5. Why does Mary give Bettie her seat on the horse?

6. Describe Mary's and Ghetel's first day away from the Indians.

7. What is the significance of Mary saying that there is a way to return if there is a way across the O-Y-O?

8. Why doesn't Mary scream out during the delivery of her baby?

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

10. Why is the horse an important tool for Mary and Ghetel?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

When the horse is injured on the bridge, Ghetel wants to go back to eat it. Mary is appalled and claims the horse as her friend. Describe how Mary's beliefs about what is edible changes.

Essay Topic 3

Why is it important to Mary that the two Harmon sons do not tell people at Drunkard's Bottom that Ghetel tried to eat her?

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