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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Makepeace while Alvin worked?
(a) None of these.
(b) Drinking himself silly with the river rats at Hatrack Mouth.
(c) Searching high and low for good prices on iron.
(d) Going to church.

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

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

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

5. Where does it hurt on Arthur Stuart?
(a) Where Alvin thought he should be working.
(b) Where Alvin was about to be working.
(c) Where Alvin had just finished working.
(d) Where Alvin had been working.

6. What did Old Peg hope for?
(a) The Finders had come back.
(b) Both of these.
(c) Neither of these.
(d) Arthur Stuart had managed to get away.

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

8. How much change did Vanderwoort give Mock Berry?
(a) Six cents.
(b) Thirteen cents.
(c) Five cents.
(d) Twelve cents.

9. Why was Alvin having difficulties grasping the theory regarding atoms?
(a) Neither of these.
(b) Alvin couldn't see an atom.
(c) There was nothing he could think of so small that couldn't be cut.
(d) Both of these.

10. What does Miss Larner charge to tutor Alvin?
(a) A dollar a week.
(b) Ten cents a week.
(c) Fifty cents a week.
(d) Sixty cents a week.

11. Why was Peggy upset?
(a) She didn't get to see Alvin's Making as it happened.
(b) She couldn't save Alvin from the pain he had endured.
(c) She couldn't help Alvin, going through the worst pain of his life.
(d) All of these.

12. What had Alvin accomplished by saying he did the work on the springhouse in his "free time"?
(a) Both of these.
(b) That Makepeace had given him time to do his own work.
(c) Neither of these.
(d) That he was doing the work for himself.

13. Which Finder did Old Peg kill?
(a) Neither of the Finders.
(b) The white haired Finder.
(c) Both of the Finders.
(d) The black haired Finder.

14. Why does Peggy want to go to Philadelphia?
(a) A higher class of people are there.
(b) The best universities are there.
(c) Both of these.
(d) Neither of these.

15. Who does Alvin encounter on the road to town?
(a) Anga Berry.
(b) Makepeace Smith.
(c) Miss Larner.
(d) Mock Berry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the first word Arthur spelled out?

2. What did Reverend Philadelphia Thrower know about Cavil Planter?

3. What did the people standing by the stove offer Alvin?

4. How many bottles of bourbon did Cavil drink?

5. Who slammed the door to the springhouse?

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