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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 was to happen in the ballroom downstairs?

2. What does the African slave girl think Peggy's voice belongs to?

3. What comment did Makepeace have for the water from the well Alvin dug?

4. What name hadn't the visitor been called?

5. How old is Alvin at this point in the story?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Peggy not admire her father for helping Black slaves get north and free?

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

4. Why wasn't Alvin able to beat back the Unmaker initially when it had started to snow?

5. For what reasons did Cavil find himself cursed?

6. What did Cavil do that he felt was godly and righteous?

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

8. What does Peggy say that Mistress Modesty's knack is?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Mistress Modesty's statement "much of what is best in me, your father gave me" in reference to Horace Guester. What did she mean by this, and how is this revealed to the reader?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Old Peg's feelings of Miss Larner before and after she had spoken with her. What comments swayed the opinion of Peggy's mother towards actually liking Miss Larner or at least caused her to hold the woman in a better light?

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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