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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 would Armor do to stop the massacre?

2. How does Measure feel getting out of the cellar?

3. What does de Maurepas call Old Hickory?

4. How many years has Napoleon Bonaparte waited for his war?

5. How will the Prophet die?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Mike Fink view life and death? Why isn't he proud of killing Measure?

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

5. What does Alvin know will happen by the third time he tells the story of what happened at Tippy-Canoe?

6. What is the only way that Ta-Kumsaw can get to Alvin and why does he need to do so?

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

8. What is the difference between the oath of a land at peace and an angry land?

9. What do the Reds do when faced with death at the hand of the Whites?

10. How is Prophetstown a miraculous place?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the emergence of the Christian religion in this novel. How does it interfere with the average individual's practice of knacks? Is Armor-of-God's intolerance of knackery a preview of what is to come in North America (think Salem Witch Trials) or not?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the mutual animosity between the Reds and the Whites in the story. Do they have reason to fear each other? Why or why not? Is this a common theme throughout history? Explain.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Caucasian and Native American relations since settlers arrived from Europe. Under what precedence did Caucasian people take over the land that had once belonged strictly to the native peoples?

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