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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. Where are the Indians who are looking for True Son sent?

2. What does Aunt Kate bring to True Son's room after he gets sick?

3. Who does Parson Elder come to the house to check on?

4. True son tells Parson Elder that Cuyloga says that men who do this are cowards.

5. What curious landmark does Half Arrow see that he has heard of?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Mr. Butler's reaction when he finds True Son going to visit Corn Blade?

2. Describe True Son's arrival at his village.

3. What news is brought to Harry Butler? Who is the messenger?

4. Describe True Son and Half Arrows first several days back at Lenni Lenape.

5. Describe True Son's feelings about Del's departure.

6. Gordie tells the basket maker that he is a slave. How does he respond?

7. Why does Half Arrow say that True Son has been living with the whites for too long?

8. Describe True Son's first night back with his Indian family.

9. What does True Son think and feel about his situation when he wakes up on the mountain?

10. Why is Parson Elder called to the butler home?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

After fleeing from the Butler's barn, True Son realizes that he can not go back to that town, or he will be hanged or imprisoned. At the end of the story, True Son can no longer go into Indian territory. Do you think that he regrets either or both actions that have put him in this situation? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

After the failed ambush, what do the Indians do to True Son's face? What does it symbolize, and what following events does it alert True Son to? What does Cuyloga do to his own face in response, and why?

Essay Topic 3

Describe Cuyloga's home as compared to Harry Butler's. What are True Son's feelings towards the two structures? Do you think that the feelings come from the structures themselves, or from the people that they represent?

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