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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. Last year what nuts were in poor supply?

2. What is the door made of for Sam's hemlock home?

3. What does Sam us to make his candles?

4. How many weeks ago did Sam's family come for a visit?

5. What does Bando teach?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Frightful look like?

2. Why does Sam decide that he can't raise pheasant and quail for meat?

3. What did Sam and Alice do on Christmas day last year?

4. How does Sam describe the June morning at the beginning of Part 1?

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

6. What is a plumping mill?

7. Why doesn't Sam want electricity?

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

9. What is Adirondack furniture?

10. Why doesn't Sam allow Alice to edge all the paths with stones?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Sam decides that Alice is on an extended journey. Why does Sam at first think she has no business going off on her own? Why does change his mind and decide she is entitled to an adventure?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Sam realizes that it is not Leon Longbridge who took Frightful. How does Sam realize that Longbridge didn't take Frightful? What does that discovery mean about Frightful's safety?

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