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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. Where is Simon when Chapter 3 begins?

2. Why does Simon hide up a tree?

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

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

5. Why is Simon adopted into the Shawnee Tribe?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Ruth?

2. Who surveys the site for the first city in Kentucky?

3. Why does Simon Kenton start stealing horses?

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

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

6. What is the Shawnee Nation divided over in Chapter 5?

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

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

9. What family is hiding Kenton in Chapter 5?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

What do you think about Blue Jacket's conversion to the Shawnee tribe? Does Blue Jacket lose some of his own heritage in doing so? Assess Blue Jacket's character in the book.

Essay Topic 3

Contrast and compare the two lead Native American characters; Tecumseh and Blue Jacket. Who is the most loyal? What are their different strengths and weaknesses?

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