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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. How old does Yance believe that Carrie Penney is?

2. Where does Samuel Maverick live?

3. What is the name of John Tilly's ship?

4. How old was Temperance when Yance met her?

5. When an Indian took Kin to Shawmut by canoe, at the foot of what hill does he leave Kin?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Reverend Blaxton considered to be eccentric?

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

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

4. Why does the Musketaquid River worry Kin?

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

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

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

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

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

10. How did Henry learn to speak English?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Kin's and Rafe's swordmanship and how their skills compare.

Essay Topic 2

In Jamaica, people like Henry are called maroons. Discuss who maroons are, their lives and how they help Kin and Henry.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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