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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. How wide is the river that Kin, Yance and the girls cross while they try to make it to safety?
(a) 50 yards wide.
(b) 75 yards wide.
(c) 100 yards wide.
(d) 150 yards wide.

2. What is the name of Henry's tribe?
(a) Amhara.
(b) Bombara.
(c) Ashanti.
(d) Maasai.

3. Whose widow did Samuel Maverick marry?
(a) Peter Martin.
(b) Jonathan Standish.
(c) David Thomson.
(d) Martin Pierce.

4. When Kin sees those who are pursuing him near his camp, who does he see lighting a fire?
(a) Lashan.
(b) Bauer.
(c) Vern.
(d) Pittingel.

5. How many men were walking barefoot on the trail that Yance finds?
(a) 7.
(b) 4.
(c) 5.
(d) 6.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the settlers at Shooting Creek married a Spanish wife?

2. What does Kin tell Yance to do while he is gone?

3. What is Kin hunting for at the beginning of the book?

4. What sound does Yance make as a signal when Kin is talking with Max Bauer to indicate he has found something?

5. What color horse does Yance ride?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Yance say that he and Kin will be alone looking for the kidnapped girls?

2. Why does Kin believe it is important to read?

3. What evidence is available that could cause Diana to be brought up before the assises?

4. How do Kin and Yance know that the girls have escaped their captors?

5. What does Kin tell Anna Temperance of life at Shooting Creek?

6. Why were the northern settlers not hunters?

7. How does Kin describe the path he watches while he hunts?

8. How did Henry become the servant of a ship's captain?

9. When Yance is in the stocks, what does a sailor tell him about Pittingel?

10. What does Kin tell Yance before he leaves for the West Indies?

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