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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was SIlas when he went to school for a time?
(a) About 5 1/2.
(b) 5.
(c) 7 or so.
(d) 6.

2. How did Silas's mother die?
(a) Typhoid.
(b) Childbirth.
(c) Drowned.
(d) Pneumonia.

3. What name does Silas wonder if he should name Pony in Chapter 4?
(a) jArcadia.
(b) Hermione.
(c) Aethon.
(d) Zephyr.

4. In Chapter 2, how long has it been since someone played the instrument Silas's mother used to play?
(a) 11 years.
(b) 12 years.
(c) 10 years.
(d) 13 years.

5. What color are Martin's eyes?
(a) Brown.
(b) Gray.
(c) Green.
(d) Blue.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Silas and his father live?

2. In Chapter 2, what type of weapon does Enoch Farmer have when Silas first meets him?

3. What type of wood does Enoch ask SIlas to avoid when he asks Silas to gather firewood?

4. How old was Silas when his father took him hunting once?

5. In the spring and summer, how long would Pa and SIlas sit on the front porch after supper and talk?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Silas say about his father and his father's inventions?

2. How does Mittenwool think that Silas's father will react when he learns that Silas is coming after him?

3. Who is Mittenwool?

4. What does Marshal Farmer tell Silas about skirmishes in the area?

5. Under what conditions does Martin agree to go with Rufe, Seb, and Eben?

6. What happened when Martin took a picture of the full moon for the lunar photo contest?

7. How do Marshal Farmer and Silas find the trail of Silas's pa and the other men?

8. What does Silas realize about Marshal Farmer when he sees him in the daylight in Chapter 3?

9. What do three men who come in the night in Chapter 1 want with Martin?

10. How does Silas describe his father to Marshal Farmer?

(see the answer keys)

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