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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What didn't Alvin want to fill Arthur Stuart's head with?
(a) The Chrystal City.
(b) His Makery.
(c) Being able to change iron to gold.
(d) All of these.

2. What had happened to Salamandy?
(a) She had killed her baby, and then herself.
(b) She had hung herself with a bedsheet.
(c) She had slit her wrists.
(d) She had run away.

3. Who was in the General Store when Alvin arrived?
(a) All of these.
(b) Daisy.
(c) Martin.
(d) Pieter Vanderwoort.

4. How did Alvin know Po Doggly and Horace Guester had worked together many times before?
(a) Both of these.
(b) Neither of these.
(c) Neither had to tell the other what to do.
(d) They worked together flawlessly.

5. What is "behind the barn' talk?
(a) Talk regarding a womans' lady parts.
(b) Neither of these.
(c) Both of these.
(d) Talk regarding the 'women' down at Hatrack Mouth.

6. What did Miss Larner want in payment for teaching Arthur Stuart?
(a) A dollar a month.
(b) None of these.
(c) The allowance to host poetry readings in the roadhouse on Sunday evenings.
(d) A dollar a week.

7. Who slammed the door to the springhouse?
(a) Arthur Stewart.
(b) Old Peg.
(c) Horace.
(d) Alvin.

8. What was Miss Larner teaching Alvin about?
(a) Demosthenes theory of atomic structure.
(b) Electrons.
(c) The Earth's rotation around the sun.
(d) Protons.

9. What will Cavil call the stolen half black child?
(a) Abraham.
(b) Job.
(c) Sanskrit.
(d) Ishmael.

10. What did Makepeace attempt to give back to Hank?
(a) The esteem he had gained from the well.
(b) The wand he had dowsed with.
(c) None of these.
(d) His dignity back.

11. What is the first word the two people ask Arthur Stuart to spell?
(a) Championship.
(b) Cinnamon.
(c) Sassafras.
(d) Chicory.

12. What does Cavil consider righteousness?
(a) The whipping of slaves.
(b) All of these.
(c) The beating of slaves.
(d) The cold nature to which he treats the women he rapes.

13. What errand did Makepeace have Alvin doing in the snow?
(a) Going to town in the wagon.
(b) Getting supplies from Hatrack Mouth.
(c) Both of these.
(d) Neither of these.

14. What thing didn't Alvin dream of?
(a) Arthur Stuart being whipped.
(b) Turning the plow to gold.
(c) Arthur Stuart, dead from a beating.
(d) Alvin killing one of the Finders.

15. What was worse pain than what Dolores was suffering?
(a) Knowing that Cavil sold his sons.
(b) Knowing that Cavil was a monster.
(c) Knowing that Cavil raped women.
(d) All of these.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was true Making?

2. Why didn't Mock Berry want to stay in the sleigh when he saw Arthur Stuart?

3. Who does Arthur say picked him up and flew with him?

4. What did Old Peg hope for?

5. What doesn't Old Peg want Alvin to pick up from town?

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