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

2. What did Alvin say that angered Horace?

3. What was customary for masters to do?

4. In what way did Peggy dance for Alvin?

5. What kind of emotions did Horace Guester's name bring about in Mistress Modesty?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What action shocked the traveling priest?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss why having her own suite was so important to Miss Larner. What couldn't she have done while living at the roadhouse? Why did this desire to live alone so upset Old Peg?

Essay Topic 2

Examine Mistress Modesty. What role does she play in the story? Was this role crucial to the plot development? Why or why not? Is it likely she will feature a part in a future episode? Why or why not?

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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