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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 does Mistress Modesty ask Peggy to be?

2. What was a mistake among women?

3. What was to happen in the ballroom downstairs?

4. What is it that a torch does?

5. Who did Peggy figure could have saved the slave girl?

Short Essay Questions

1. What monster was little Peggy running from, and how did Alvin know?

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

3. What was the difference between Hank and other dowsers?

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

5. What decision changed little Peggy's life, and in what way did it change?

6. What did Hank understand in regards to Alvin that he wouldn't have otherwise?

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

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

9. For what reasons did Cavil find himself cursed?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the Overseer as being synonymous with the Devil. What information lets the reader know that the Overseer is supposed to be the representation of the devil?

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 Alvin's deteriorated relationship with Cally. What does this deterioration show about Cally's character, and what does it reveal about Alvin's? Could this relationship be salvaged by Alvin? Why or why not?

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