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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 Alvin think of Makepeace?

2. How many years had past since Alvin had been an apprentice of Makepeace?

3. What had Cavil never seen anything so graceful as?

4. What was the difference between Cavil and Abraham?

5. Why did Alvin shake Horace Guester's hand gladly?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What was the Unmaker's tool in the land?

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

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

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

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

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 Alvin's behavior at Hatrack Mouth as gallant heroism, or unabashed brutality. Document your opinion either utilizing Alvin's opinion of himself while he was playing up to the river rats, or Miss Larner's behavior after he had defended her honor.

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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