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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Cavil to do?

2. What does Peggy see when she looks into Alvin's future?

3. What kind of talent was mostly found among seventh sons?

4. How old was Cavil's wife when she took to having aches and pains?

5. How much had Cavil bought his new girl for?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How did Hank feel about Alvin?

4. Why does Cavil perceive his visitor as an overseer?

5. What sacrifice did the Black slave girl make? Why did she make this choice?

6. Why did Hank Dowser seek to calm Makepeace Smith after he had riled him up?

7. What action shocked the traveling priest?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the newer forms of technology that are talked about in the novel for the era that the novel was set. What are some of the newer ideas, concepts, and things that are discussed when the reader takes into account that the novel was set in the early 1800s?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Peggy's relationship with her parents. How are the feelings of the parents revealed upon the new addition to the family? How do both parents react to her return as Miss Larner?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Peggy's feelings for Alvin. Are they realistic? Why or why not? Explain how her future changes as Alvin finally loves her, not a boyish kind of love, but that of a man, and how it would have been had Peggy stayed in Hatrack.

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