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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 thing didn't Alvin dream of?

2. Where did Old Peg want the schoolteacher to live?

3. What didn't Arthur tell anyone about?

4. When had Arthur last seen the boat?

5. Why did Old Peg Guester pack her things along with Arthur Stuarts'?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What incident caused Peggy to reveal herself as being who she really was?

3. What did Alvin and Measure teach each other?

4. Why is it that Miss Larner can't teach Alvin to be a Maker directly?

5. Why did Alvin figure Mock Berry didn't thank him for getting him a fair price?

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

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

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

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 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 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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