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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. Why is Mike Fink ashamed?

2. Whose insight had it been to send General Bonaparte from France?

3. What is the only sentence that Ta-Kumsaw speaks to Alvin?

4. Of what did the forest smell?

5. What has Frederic received?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is White Murderer Harrison's curse?

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

3. What does Napoleon tell Ta-Kumsaw to say to Alvin, and what is Alvin's response?

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

5. Why doesn't Ta-Kumsaw walk away with his men when he has the chance?

6. What kinds of options does Measure have? How are these options merely illusions?

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

8. What is interesting about Becca's eyes?

9. For what reasons does Frederic don the amulet?

10. Why is Measure offended that the Red men haven't treated him fairly in the Gatlopp?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Alvin's immunity to the Red man feeling what he was changing in the environment. How does this provide a convenient way for Alvin to save Measure and himself from torture? What do you think would have happened if Alvin had been noticed doing his knackery?

Essay Topic 2

Compare American frontier towns to small towns that exist present day. What kinds of characteristics are similar and what things are different? Taking away technological advancement as a main difference, what other main differences exist in small towns of today? What do you think is the reason for this difference?

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast Tenska-Tawa and any other Prophet of history. What are their similarities and what are their differences? Who made a better spiritual leader and why? Is it possible the spiritual aspects of the true Tenskwatawa are downplayed in modern history due to their origins? Why or why not?

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