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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 type of trees do Yance and Kin lay under when they see a ship after they've been tracking the girls?

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

3. How long have people been living in the Massachusetts Bay colony at the time the story is told?

4. Who killed Kin's father?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Kin believe that something is on the trail he watches while he hunts?

2. Where does Kin tell Diana that she and her father can go if she is not welcome back at Cape Ann?

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

4. What does Diana tell Kin about Samuel Maverick?

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

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

7. Why is there peace between Tenaco's tribe and the white men?

8. How did Henry become a slave?

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

10. How does Yance describe Diana Macklin?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Kin learns about the girls' disappearance and that it is thought Indians took them. Discuss the theories about the girls' disappearance.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the protagonist and antagonist in the novel.

Essay Topic 3

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

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