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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17, Spelling Bee.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Old Peg want the schoolteacher to live?
(a) None of these.
(b) In the old springhouse.
(c) In the inn.
(d) In her own home in town.

2. Why was Alvin having difficulties grasping the theory regarding atoms?
(a) There was nothing he could think of so small that couldn't be cut.
(b) Both of these.
(c) Alvin couldn't see an atom.
(d) Neither of these.

3. What would his career as a blacksmith teach Alvin?
(a) How to be honest.
(b) How to be proud.
(c) How to be a man.
(d) How to be a Maker.

4. What is it that a torch does?
(a) All of these.
(b) Looks into the womb to see how the baby lays and whether it is in the right position to be born.
(c) Looks into people's heartfires and sees their future.
(d) Looks into people's heartfires and sees their secrets and thoughts.

5. What secret does Alvin wish for Horace to keep?
(a) That it was his brother that died in the river.
(b) All of these.
(c) That Alvin was going to stay in Hatrack.
(d) That he is the seventh son of a seventh son.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why must Peggy go and advance her schooling?

2. What did Old Peg Guester name the Black boy-baby?

3. What did Alvin think of Makepeace?

4. What kind of emotions did Horace Guester's name bring about in Mistress Modesty?

5. What does Cavil consider righteousness?

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