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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are Ta-Kumsaw and Old Hickory spreading?
(a) Both of these.
(b) Choices.
(c) Neither of these.
(d) Decisions.

2. What is in the pouch that Alvin gives to Measure?
(a) Both of these.
(b) Dried corn.
(c) Pemmican.
(d) Neither of these.

3. What does a White man do when he comes to a valley?
(a) He goes down into it to find what's there.
(b) Both of these.
(c) He stays on top of the mountain to see the view.
(d) Neither of these.

4. To whom or what is La Fayette more of a friend than he is to Napoleon?
(a) France.
(b) Robespierre.
(c) All of these.
(d) King Charles.

5. What is the only sentence that Ta-Kumsaw speaks to Alvin?
(a) "Tell them why I have come."
(b) "Tell them what happened at Tippy-Canoe."
(c) "Tell them what White Murderer Harrison did."
(d) "Tell them what your father did."

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Harrison employ to do in Measure?

2. Why doesn't Alvin want to eat the fish?

3. Why is Tenska-Tawa sending Alvin with Ta-Kumsaw?

4. How many does Measure figure are in the army?

5. Why does Gilbert applaud a horrible show?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Tenska-Tawa promise his people as they wait to die?

2. How does Ta-Kumsaw survive wounds that would have felled any other man and how do the enemy soldiers react to this?

3. What is White Murderer Harrison's curse?

4. Why doesn't Alvin leave when he is feeling so lonely in Ta-Kumsaw's presence?

5. Why does La Fayette wish that Napoleon were merely a "vain posturer with a gift for seducing the loyalty of his betters"(266)?

6. How is Prophetstown a miraculous place?

7. What does Taleswapper have in his bag?

8. Why is Measure thankful that Alvin isn't with him?

9. What is interesting to note about the way Alvin makes the journey with Ta-Kumsaw?

10. How do Alvin and Measure differ in the way they view their family?

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