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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 is the name of Simon's captor?
(a) Blue Jacket.
(b) Sugar Tree.
(c) Tecumseh.
(d) Boh-nah

2. What is Marmaduke von Swearingen's new Indian Name?
(a) Blue Pants.
(b) Red Jacket.
(c) Green Bandana.
(d) Blue Jacket.

3. After Boone escapes in Chapter 4, what activity does he and Simon take up?
(a) Stealing horses from the Indians.
(b) Attacking caravans.
(c) Raising crops.
(d) Hunting Big Game.

4. Who is impressed at Simon's shooting in Chapter 1?
(a) Dan Johnson.
(b) William Leaching.
(c) Bill Grills.
(d) Blue Jacket.

5. At the beginning of Chapter 3, what does Loramie tell Simon?
(a) That he should leave the frontier.
(b) That he should proceed further west.
(c) That he still hasn't found the rich canelands.
(d) That he should join the Indians.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who becomes the new governor of Kentucky?

2. What does Simon immediately notice about Western Kentucky?

3. What sort of friction is there between Colonel Lewis and General Dunmore?

4. What does George Strader decide to do in Chapter 2?

5. How many Shawnee join Byrd's forces to destroy the Colonists?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Simon adopted into the Shawnee tribe?

2. What happens to the Moravian Indians in Chapter 6?

3. What role does Simon Kenton play in the battles with the Indians in Chapter 2?

4. In what ways do chiefs Cornstalk and Logan both change their minds?

5. How is Simon rescued?

6. What was Simon Kenton known for as a youth and why?

7. How does Simon Girty try to stop the retaliation in Chapter 6?

8. How is Boone captured, and what happens to him thereafter?

9. What happens to Yaeger and George Strader at the beginning of Chapter 2?

10. Where and when was Simon Kenton born?

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