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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 Cavil consider righteousness?

3. How much change did Vanderwoort give Mock Berry?

4. How did Alvin's story start?

5. What does Miss Larner charge to tutor Alvin?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why was Mistress Modesty so upset?

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

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

6. What excuses were offered to Old Peg to try and talk sense into her?

7. Why was Alvin so offended at the idea that Miss Larner had paid him to look after her?

8. How does Old Peg feel initially about the teacher?

9. Why did Pauley Wiseman work so quickly to get Arthur out of town?

10. Why was Old Peg fearful of the Fugitive Slave Treaty?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the exchange of information that occurs between Measure and Alvin at the end of the novel. How do each benefit from the knowledge the other is willing to teach? Whose knowledge is more specific to certain circumstance? Explain.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Discuss the portrayal of slavery in this book. How has slavery become a tender topic of American history? What are some of the main human rights violations that occur while a slave is indentured to his or her master?

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