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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. Why does the Shawnee tribe split?

2. What are springs being used for in Chapter 4?

3. How does Yaeger die?

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

5. What is remarkable about the canoe of men that Simon helps one night?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Simon Kenton save Daniel's life?

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

4. Why does Simon Kenton start stealing horses?

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

6. What family is hiding Kenton in Chapter 5?

7. Who is Ruth?

8. Why does Bill Grills quit the Frontier?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the actions and the eventual fate of the Greathouse party/expedition. Do you think they deserved their fate? Why do you think they did what they did?

Essay Topic 3

Describe Simon's relationship with Martha, and then with Elizabeth. How were the two women similar?

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