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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. Who adopts Boone in Chapter 4?

2. What are Tomahawk Improvements?

3. What is the name of Simon's captor?

4. Who does John Yaeger say that he lived with for many years?

5. What date does Cornstalk attack Colonel Lewis's force?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Simon adopted into the Shawnee tribe?

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

3. How does Simon's father die?

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

5. How is Simon rescued?

6. Why does Simon Kenton start stealing horses?

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

8. What family is hiding Kenton in Chapter 5?

9. What is the impressive action Kenton takes that awards him the job with Bill Grills?

10. What happens to Chief Cornstalk when he goes to Fort Randolph?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the notion of historical veracity in fiction. How can it be said that Eckert's book is biased? Is it historically accurate?

Essay Topic 2

Describe Simon Kenton as a child. Describe Tecumseh as a child. How are the two similar? Dissimilar?

Essay Topic 3

What are ‘tomahawk improvements’? What happens to many of the claims made in this manner?

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