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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) Boh-nah
(b) Sugar Tree.
(c) Blue Jacket.
(d) Tecumseh.

2. What offer does Simon refuse in Chapter 4?
(a) To emigrate.
(b) To go on a hunting expedition with Boone.
(c) To join with the British.
(d) To marry Boone's daughter.

3. What is remarkable about the canoe of men that Simon helps one night?
(a) One of them is his brother
(b) One of them is William Leachmann.
(c) One of them is his father.
(d) One of them is his sworn enemy.

4. What is the name of the second girl that Simon becomes enamored by?
(a) Emily.
(b) Elaine.
(c) Martha.
(d) Ruth.

5. What happens to John Wood in Chapter 2?
(a) He is bitten by a spider.
(b) He falls off a cliff.
(c) He is bitten by a copperhead snake.
(d) He is bitten by a dog.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Edgar's wife so loathe to see Kenton go?

2. What does Simon notice while up the tree?

3. What job was Simon expected to do because it was what his father did?

4. How much land does Simon offer to each of his family and neighbors to return with him to Kentucky?

5. How has the settler whom Simon finds in Chapter 6 been killed?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How do the hostilities with the Indians start in Chapter 2?

3. Where is Simon Kenton attempting to travel to in Chapter 1?

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

5. What crime does Simon Kenton think that he has committed in Chapter 1?

6. How is Simon adopted into the Shawnee tribe?

7. In Chapter 3, who are the colonists at war with?

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

9. Who is Ruth?

10. What does Simon Kenton become famous for?

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