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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 type of tree does Sam take branches from to make a weapon?

2. Who helps Sam fell the tree for the sluice of the millhouse?

3. How much money did Sam bring from the city?

4. What does Sam us to make his candles?

5. How big is the pond created by Sam's new dam?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Sam and Alice learn to build a dam that doesn't wash out?

2. What does Sam find missing from Alice's home when he goes to check?

3. What does Frightful look like?

4. Where does Sam think Alice might be in Part I?

5. What did Sam, Alice, and their friends do for Thanksgiving dinner last year?

6. Why did Sam's family come to the mountain last year and then leave?

7. Why does Alice want electricity?

8. Who comes to the mountain and takes Frightful and why?

9. Who is Bando?

10. How did Sam fell the big hemlock for the sluice?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Sam can tell when they leave the Catskills and enter the Helderbergs. How can Sam tell when he leaves one mountain range and enters another? How does it make a difference in his hiking plans and in his search for Alice?

Essay Topic 2

Bando is tired and gets a meal at a restaurant and stays at a hotel. Why is Bando so tired? Why does he begin to take opportunities to eat at restaurants and stay in towns rather than trekking through the woods.

Essay Topic 3

Sam had a chance to have a goshawk and to get Frightful back. Why didn't same keep the goshawk or try to get Frightful back? Why did he have mixed feelings about not keeping the birds?

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