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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 did the Unmaker do while Alvin was in the forest?

2. What had Peggy decided to do?

3. What was the difference between Cavil and Abraham?

4. What did Dolores' hands look like?

5. What shouldn't Hank bring up at the Guester's roadhouse?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Why was the man that Peggy had been dancing with confused when Peggy stopped dancing?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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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