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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Alvin say that angered Horace?
(a) That Peggy might have ran off with a boy.
(b) None of these.
(c) That Peggy might have been jealous of the infant.
(d) That Peggy ran off to seek her fortune elsewhere.

2. What do men measure, according to Mistress Modesty?
(a) They take pleasure in a woman that takes pleasure in their company.
(b) They take pleasure in a woman that is sure of herself.
(c) All of these.
(d) They take pleasure in the naturalness of a woman that's comfortable.

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

4. What shouldn't Hank bring up at the Guester's roadhouse?
(a) The fact that their daughter left.
(b) The fact that Hatrack hasn't got a torch.
(c) The fact that Alvin is a natural farrier.
(d) All of these.

5. How old was Cavil's wife when she took to having aches and pains?
(a) Twenty-five.
(b) Twenty-one.
(c) Twenty-two.
(d) Twenty.

6. What did Alvin think when he 'saw' the fresh corpse beneath the soil?
(a) Neither of these.
(b) Both of these.
(c) That the torch girl was buried there.
(d) That someone was mad at the fresh body beneath the earth.

7. What does Makepeace say in regards to Alvin?
(a) He's a good kid.
(b) All of these.
(c) He's a natural farrier.
(d) He's a smart boy.

8. What is Cavil to do?
(a) Have children by all his black women.
(b) Give his offspring up to the Overseer.
(c) Save the black generation from the devil by making them less black.
(d) All of these.

9. What was this thing for?
(a) Both of these.
(b) Neither of these.
(c) Guests to announce themselves.
(d) Peggy's calling card.

10. 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.

11. What does Peggy see when she looks into Alvin's future?
(a) None of these.
(b) All paths lead to darkness, and none emerge.
(c) That Alvin makes it out of the darkness only if he is woken.
(d) That Alvin makes it out of the darkness at the sacrifice of Arthur Stuarts life.

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

13. 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.

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Delores see in her husbands face?

2. How far did Alvin sink in the ooze at the bottom of the second well?

3. What name hadn't the visitor been called?

4. What did Alvin first think when he saw the blacksmith?

5. How many years had past since Alvin had been an apprentice of Makepeace?

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