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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. In what way was Peggy and Mistress Modesty both not a part of the masquerade?
2. What kind of wood was good for finding water?
3. Who else does the girl hate like she hates the White boss?
4. What did Alvin first think when he saw the blacksmith?
5. What does the African slave girl think Peggy's voice belongs to?
Short Essay Questions
1. What was the Unmaker's tool in the land?
2. Why couldn't Alvin simply fill the well that he had dug and make Hank Dowsers' well good?
3. What sacrifice did the Black slave girl make? Why did she make this choice?
4. Why does Horace need his secret kept, and why is it in the best interests of Alvin not to tell his secret?
5. What decision changed little Peggy's life, and in what way did it change?
6. Why wasn't Alvin able to beat back the Unmaker initially when it had started to snow?
7. What monster was little Peggy running from, and how did Alvin know?
8. What was the difference between Hank and other dowsers?
9. Why does Cavil perceive his visitor as an overseer?
10. How did Peggy see the world around the Hio?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the way the Red man, or Native Americans are talked about in this novel. References to the Native Americans are mostly spoken of in what tense? What does this lead the reader to believing in regards to the timeline?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the idea of respect in this novel. Of what importance is respect among the White people in this novel? Of what importance is respect in today's era? Explain.
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the newer forms of technology that are talked about in the novel for the era that the novel was set. What are some of the newer ideas, concepts, and things that are discussed when the reader takes into account that the novel was set in the early 1800s?
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