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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17, Spelling Bee.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What comment did Makepeace have for the water from the well Alvin dug?
(a) It was the sweetest water he had ever drank.
(b) It was the clearest water out of a day old well he'd ever seen.
(c) Both of these.
(d) Neither of these.

2. What displayed the visitor's profession?
(a) The coldness in his eyes.
(b) All of these.
(c) The stern look in his face.
(d) The tension in his muscles.

3. What did Peggy figure out about why her mother had been disappointed with her?
(a) All of these.
(b) Peggy had never been grateful enough to her mother.
(c) Peggy had never needed her mother.
(d) Peggy had been a mean spirited child.

4. What was customary for masters to do?
(a) Let their apprentices earn money on their work.
(b) Let their apprentices go when they were good enough to work on their own.
(c) All of these.
(d) Let their apprentices gain knowledge and apply it to the world.

5. How did Peggy feel at times?
(a) That she would never be happy leading her life.
(b) That her life would always be that of servitude and misery.
(c) That if it weren't for her being a torch, no one would care for her at all.
(d) That she was the lone lookout boy at the top of a ships mast.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was a mistake among women?

2. What did the lowest kind of creature do?

3. What would his career as a blacksmith teach Alvin?

4. What is "behind the barn' talk?

5. What was the most difficult lesson Mistress Modesty had taught Peggy?

(see the answer key)

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