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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is "behind the barn' talk?

2. Which of the men didn't want Arthur in the school?

3. Which Finder did Old Peg kill?

4. What did Alvin say to Arthur as he locked the manacles?

5. What words did Horace use in regards to Alvin that rankled?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why didn't Alvin think that people were the product of God's imagination?

2. Why did Alvin figure Mock Berry didn't thank him for getting him a fair price?

3. How does Old Peg feel initially about the teacher?

4. What did the changes Alvin made in Arthur Stuart do to his heartfire and futures according to Peggy?

5. What led Alvin to believe that Pieter Vanderwoort wanted Alvin's good opinion more than to get even? How did Alvin know he was basically a good man?

6. For what reasons did Alvin make the manacles, and why didn't he put them in water to cool?

7. Why was Mistress Modesty so upset?

8. What was Alvin's argument about some people having a knack to be a Finder?

9. How did Alvin feel about women after witnessing the relationships of the Smiths and Guesters?

10. What did Alvin begin to notice, working at the smithy?

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