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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 words did Horace use in regards to Alvin that rankled?

2. Which of the men didn't want Arthur in the school?

3. What had Alvin accomplished by saying he did the work on the springhouse in his "free time"?

4. What did the people standing by the stove offer Alvin?

5. What is Measure's wifes' name?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Alvin's argument about some people having a knack to be a Finder?

2. Why did Old Peg shoot the Finder dead?

3. Why was everyone talking so friendly with the Finders? How did Alvin feel about them, and their flattery?

4. What led Alvin to believe that Pieter Vanderwoort wanted Alvin's good opinion more than to get even? How did Alvin know he was basically a good man?

5. How did Alvin feel about women after witnessing the relationships of the Smiths and Guesters?

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

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

8. What did Alvin begin to notice, working at the smithy?

9. What issues did Pauley have in regard to Miss Larner living alone? How did she respond to that?

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 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?

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Alvin's deteriorated relationship with Cally. What does this deterioration show about Cally's character, and what does it reveal about Alvin's? Could this relationship be salvaged by Alvin? Why or why not?

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