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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. How wide is the river that Kin, Yance and the girls cross while they try to make it to safety?

3. What is Kin served at Reverend Blaxton's house?

4. What language does Henry, a slave, usually speak?

5. How long does Kin believe it took the Indian to travel to him?

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 the Musketaquid River worry Kin?

4. How did Henry become a slave?

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

6. Why were the northern settlers not hunters?

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

8. What does Diana think of Kin when she first meets him?

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

10. Why did the northern settlers put Yance in the stocks and how did he get free?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Kin believes that Pittingel is behind the kidnapping of Diana and Carrie, but is warned by Blaxton and Maverick that it is dangerous to accuse the man. Discuss the accusations against Pittingel and why it is dangerous to accuse Pittingel of the kidnappings.

Essay Topic 3

Diana Macklin is portrayed as an independent, self-sufficient person. Discuss why Diana Macklin is thought to be independent and self-sufficient.

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