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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How had Arthur Stuart been with Alvin?
(a) A reporter.
(b) A spy.
(c) Like his shadow.
(d) Like a ghost.

2. How many years had past since Alvin had been an apprentice of Makepeace?
(a) Three.
(b) Five.
(c) Two.
(d) Four.

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

4. What would his career as a blacksmith teach Alvin?
(a) How to be honest.
(b) How to be proud.
(c) How to be a man.
(d) How to be a Maker.

5. What did Old Peg Guester name the Black boy-baby?
(a) Orson.
(b) Othello.
(c) Cromwell.
(d) Arthur Stuart.

6. How old is Alvin at this point in the story?
(a) Twelve.
(b) Eleven.
(c) Ten.
(d) Eight.

7. What was the difference between Cavil and Abraham?
(a) Abraham was a devoted servant of God.
(b) Abraham was a disciple of God.
(c) Abraham was more righteous.
(d) Abraham heard the voice of God.

8. What was the wrong thing for Hank to say?
(a) "I'd cuff that boy two ways from Sunday."
(b) "I don't want that boy touching my horse."
(c) "What kind of master are you, letting him speak like that to you?"
(d) "Who's the master here, anyway?"

9. What did the lowest kind of creature do?
(a) Both of these.
(b) Live openly with a black woman.
(c) Neither of these.
(d) Live openly in a mixed racial relationship.

10. What kind of emotions did Horace Guester's name bring about in Mistress Modesty?
(a) Glad memory.
(b) Neither of these.
(c) Fear at what Peggy might intend.
(d) Both of these.

11. What is Horace Guester's knack?
(a) All of these.
(b) Making people his friends.
(c) Making folks feel loved.
(d) Making people love him.

12. Why can't Peggy send the Unmaker away?
(a) Both of these.
(b) Neither of these.
(c) He thought himself a match for the Unmaker.
(d) He called it himself.

13. What song did Redbird begin to sing that was different from Redman's song?
(a) The song of Rebirth.
(b) The song of the Redbird.
(c) The song of Triumph.
(d) The song of Making.

14. What did Dolores ask for Cavil to do?
(a) Sleep in another room.
(b) Kill her.
(c) Divorce her.
(d) Heal her.

15. What did Alvin invite when he dug in anger?
(a) The Unmaker.
(b) Danger.
(c) The Destroyer.
(d) All of these.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Alvin look forward to leaving the town of Vigor Church to begin his apprenticeship?

2. What was to happen in the ballroom downstairs?

3. What is Horace's secret sin?

4. What kind of wood was good for finding water?

5. What did Alvin think about when he had woken?

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