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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. What does Kin see growing on the east side of the hollow where Diana and Carrie had been gathering herbs?

2. What did Yance set outside Temperance's family home and then he disappeared and laid low?

3. What is the name of Henry's tribe?

4. Who does the old Indian who was sent to find Yance say took Carrie Penney?

5. What does Kin say that his brother Yance fights like?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Diana make some of the men guarding her and Carrie leary of her?

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

5. How did Henry learn to speak English?

6. Why does Kin decide he will go to the West Indies?

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

8. What does Diana tell Kin about Samuel Maverick?

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

10. Why does the Musketaquid River worry Kin?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Kin experiences a number of conflicts--internal and external. Discuss conflicts that Kin experiences in the book.

Essay Topic 2

Kin writes letters to Peter Tallis and his brother Brian to establish a claim to the land he and the others have settled. Discuss land claims in America and why Kin and the other settlers need to secure their claims.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Rafe Bogardus, his profession, his character and how he became a killer.

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