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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Peggy ask Mistress Modesty to stay with her?
(a) For company.
(b) For comfort should she fail.
(c) Both of these.
(d) None of these.

2. What did the Prophet show Alvin?
(a) How he had succeeded in making the world a better place.
(b) A vision of the Crystal City.
(c) How he had succeeded in becoming a Maker.
(d) All of these.

3. How did Peggy feel she spoke?
(a) Squawking like a seagull.
(b) Squawking like a crow.
(c) Screeching like an door that hadn't been oiled in a fortnight.
(d) Squawking like a chicken.

4. What did Peggy attempt to do?
(a) Use his caul to make a branch fall from a tree.
(b) Use his caul to fend off the Unmaker.
(c) Use his caul to cause someone to come and wake him.
(d) All of these.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the horse that Makepeace was shoeing?

2. What was it that Hank realized with Alvin close?

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

4. What did Mistress Modesty imagine when she thought of Peggy's pain?

5. What did Old Peg Guester name the Black boy-baby?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was the man that Peggy had been dancing with confused when Peggy stopped dancing?

2. Why was the Berry's saying that this half white child was theirs was the best bet to ensure the child's survival?

3. Why does Horace need his secret kept, and why is it in the best interests of Alvin not to tell his secret?

4. What things kept Alvin from running like a Red man?

5. Why do most people feel guilty when they hear the story of the Tippy Canoe Massacre?

6. Who was it that stopped Alvin from being overcome by the Unmaker?

7. Why couldn't Alvin simply fill the well that he had dug and make Hank Dowsers' well good?

8. What did Peggy notice about Mistress Modesty's heart when she was looking at Peggy?

9. How did Peggy see the world around the Hio?

10. Why wasn't Peggy as dressed up as some of the other girls at the ball?

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