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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. What did the Unmaker do while Alvin was in the forest?
(a) Caused it to sleet hail on a summer morning.
(b) Both of these.
(c) Neither of these.
(d) Caused it to snow on a summer morning.

2. What kind of emotions did Horace Guester's name bring about in Mistress Modesty?
(a) Both of these.
(b) Neither of these.
(c) Fear at what Peggy might intend.
(d) Glad memory.

3. What did Dolores' hands look like?
(a) Dead spiders.
(b) Dead crabs.
(c) Crabs.
(d) Ashen sticks.

4. Who did Peggy figure could have saved the slave girl?
(a) Anga Berry.
(b) Dr, Whitley Physicker.
(c) Taleswapper.
(d) Alvin.

5. What did Alvin hear?
(a) A bird's song.
(b) A bird's wings through the air.
(c) Crickets chirping.
(d) Toads croaking.

Short Answer Questions

1. What nationality was the girl who answered the door?

2. What did Cavil start to think?

3. What did Delores see in her husbands face?

4. Why can't Peggy send the Unmaker away?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Alvin end up feeling like he was "half hisself"?

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

3. How did he treat his slaves following the appearance of his visitor?

4. What action shocked the traveling priest?

5. How did Hank feel about Alvin?

6. Why did Alvin dig out a well that he knew wouldn't do any good?

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

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

9. What had White folk found a way to calculate?

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

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