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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 do the people who find Measure call him?

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

3. What name does Ta-Kumsaw call his daughter?

4. How does a Red usually kill a man, according to Mike Fink?

5. What does Mike Fink think of life?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Where does Alvin find the fruit that he isn't allowed to eat any more? Why is this?

3. For what reasons does Frederic don the amulet?

4. What does Alvin figure has happened when he explains what the Chok-Taw have done to the saddles?

5. What specifically hurts Alvin when he examines his brother?

6. Why does Alvin believe there is some witchery involved in regards to Ta-Kumsaw?

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

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

9. Why does La Fayette want Napoleon out of command?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast Tenska-Tawa and Ta-Kumsaw's belief patterns. Who is a better leader and how would you define a better leader? Why is that character a more successful leader?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the difference in Measure and Alvin's approach to family. What is the most important thing in regards to Measure, the thing that trumps all other considerations? Is this a narrow perspective? Explain. Is Alvin's concern a greater cause in general? With whose opinion do you identify and why?

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