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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 people standing by the stove offer Alvin?

2. What does Peggy aspire to be?

3. What did Arthur do to the palm that had killed the other Finder?

4. What words did Horace use in regards to Alvin that rankled?

5. What doesn't Old Peg want Alvin to pick up from town?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Old Peg shoot the Finder dead?

2. What did the changes Alvin made in Arthur Stuart do to his heartfire and futures according to Peggy?

3. What kinds of things did Alvin do around the springhouse?

4. What might Peggy have said if she had gotten a chance, before her mama died?

5. How did Alvin realize that Miss Larner was right?

6. Why didn't Alvin think that people were the product of God's imagination?

7. How did Miss Larner feel about Dr. Physicker's payment to Alvin?

8. What plan did Alvin come up with to make sure that the Finders would never find Arthur Stuart again?

9. Why didn't Alvin want to take away Mike Fink's protective hex? Why did he have to?

10. Why was Mistress Modesty so upset?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does this novel paint a dark picture of slavery and therefore of American history? Is it important to keep in mind the past? Why or why not? What is important about remembering the era of slavery in America?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Alvin's initial fear that Arthur Stuart wasn't accepted in Vigor Church. Why was this a major concern of Alvin's? What was it that Alvin wanted for young Arthur Stuart, and why couldn't he just continue to follow Alvin?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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