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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. What is Donovan's want?
(a) To sleep without dreaming.
(b) To eat as much as possible.
(c) To own his own business.
(d) To fill his canteen and sip from it all day, never allowing it to empty.

2. Who is the postman that comes to Desma's while Nora is there?
(a) John Johnson.
(b) James Madison.
(c) Jason Maines.
(d) Ferdy Kostic.

3. What does Desma tell Nora she should do with Josie?
(a) Send her to a convent.
(b) Put her out of the house.
(c) Let her marry Dolan.
(d) Charge people for the seances Josie runs.

4. Who does Emmett leave the homestead to go looking for?
(a) His older brother Tony.
(b) Paul Griggs, the family's water person.
(c) Merrion Crace.
(d) Evelyn.

5. Why does Emmett tell Nora he thought she wrote her rebuttal letter?
(a) For her father.
(b) For her conscience.
(c) For her mother.
(d) For her constitution, but not to actually be printed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What gang does Lurie join that commits crimes?

2. What is Nora's last name?

3. What is Desma's last name?

4. What special gift does the girl who lives with Nora claim to have?

5. What is Lurie compelled to do by Hobb's spirit?

Short Essay Questions

1. What kind of creature does Lurie see for the first time when he steals away on the ship in Part II?

2. What information is contained in the Ash River Clarion's rebuttal letter to Nora's letter that greatly upsets Nora?

3. Why does Nora choose to sign her rebuttal letter to The Sentinel from Ellen Francis?

4. What one word does Emmett question Nora's use of in her rebuttal letter she wants him to print in The Sentinel?

5. What serious crime does Lurie commit in Part One that gets Marshal John Berger searching for him?

6. What does Donovan do to Lurie immediately after the wanted poster appears?

7. What does Toby want to show his mother so badly in Part I that Nora is skeptical about?

8. What power does Josie claim to have that Nora is skeptical about?

9. How does the "Wanted" poster in Part I describe Lurie?

10. What was Hobb's special skill, even as a child?

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