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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Miss Larner wish to bring poetry to Hatrack River?
(a) They could all do with a bit more education.
(b) Both of these.
(c) They could benefit from poetry more than from her torchy sight.
(d) Neither of these.

2. Why didn't the river rats hang onto the cart for longer?
(a) They no longer had interest in the lady that Alvin was protecting.
(b) The cart had become greased and their hands could find no purchase.
(c) They worried if they upset Alvin, they would have Makepeace on them too.
(d) They were afraid of what Alvin would do to them.

3. What did Reverend Philadelphia Thrower know about Cavil Planter?
(a) He was a man who did the Lords' work.
(b) He had produced twenty-six living gifts to God.
(c) The name of the mother that stole away Cavil's first baby's name was Hagar.
(d) All of these.

4. How many points did Alvin's hexes have?
(a) Eight.
(b) Six.
(c) Five.
(d) Four.

5. What does Peggy aspire to be?
(a) Goodwife.
(b) Goodlady.
(c) Goody Smith.
(d) Goodwoman.

6. How did Alvin's story start?
(a) The forging of the golden plow.
(b) He started with the story of Redbird.
(c) He started from the beginning.
(d) He told Measure about Miss Larner.

7. 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.

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

9. Who does Arthur say picked him up and flew with him?
(a) A big old blackbird.
(b) His uncle.
(c) His aunt.
(d) His momma.

10. Why did Alvin have to change all the signatures at once?
(a) Both of these.
(b) Neither of these.
(c) Arthur Stuarts' signatures attacked what Alvin was attempting to change.
(d) It hurt Arthur to do it any other way.

11. What was Pauley Wiseman's main objection to Miss Larner living on her own?
(a) It wasn't normal.
(b) It wasn't acceptable.
(c) All of these.
(d) It wasn't proper.

12. What was the alternative to the manacles?
(a) Inverted spikes on a collar.
(b) Wire attachments around the throat and hands.
(c) A heavy iron and wood collar.
(d) Chains that bound his feet to a heavy weight.

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

14. What did Hank think Makepeace was doing?
(a) Both of these.
(b) Mocking his abilities as a dowser.
(c) Laughing at him, thinking he wasn't smart enough to notice the switch.
(d) Neither of these

15. Why did Mock Berry stay so poor?
(a) No one treated the Berry's fair.
(b) People hated the Berry's.
(c) People would charge Mock more than they charge a white customer.
(d) People disliked the black family.

Short Answer Questions

1. What thing didn't Alvin dream of?

2. How did Alvin know Po Doggly and Horace Guester had worked together many times before?

3. Who lost their job in Hatrack?

4. What was true Making?

5. Who was now more important than Peggy in Alvin's future?

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