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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Alvin look forward to leaving the town of Vigor Church to begin his apprenticeship?
(a) His parents were mean to him.
(b) His home was stained with too much innocent blood for him to hanker to stay.
(c) He had caught his father trying to kill him.
(d) All of these.

2. What was a promise to remember a gentleman?
(a) Calling him a friend.
(b) Calling him a sweetheart.
(c) Calling him a dear friend.
(d) Calling him her sweetheart.

3. What wasn't Alvin to have before he had dug the well?
(a) Not a sip of water to drink.
(b) Not a bite of food to eat.
(c) Both of these.
(d) He was allowed whatever he wanted.

4. Why did Alvin give his boots away?
(a) They were too big for him.
(b) They hurt his feet.
(c) A poor family had a boy around Alvin's age.
(d) He didn't like how they looked.

5. What is Horace's secret sin?
(a) He hated his wife.
(b) He wanted to die.
(c) He hated his daughter.
(d) He cheated on his wife with a woman in Dekane.

6. What shouldn't Hank bring up at the Guester's roadhouse?
(a) The fact that Alvin is a natural farrier.
(b) The fact that Hatrack hasn't got a torch.
(c) All of these.
(d) The fact that their daughter left.

7. Who else does the girl hate like she hates the White boss?
(a) Fat Faux.
(b) Sat Fox.
(c) Fat Fox.
(d) Flat Fox.

8. What didn't the lady see when she judged Peggy?
(a) A country girl.
(b) A poor, ill bred girl.
(c) A child who had known pain.
(d) How awful it must be to know things that didn't bear knowing.

9. What did Alvin first think when he saw the blacksmith?
(a) That he would never be hungry learning to be a smith.
(b) He'd been sent to prentice to the devil.
(c) That the smith was likely to hurt him.
(d) That the smith was an evil looking man.

10. What song did Redbird begin to sing that was different from Redman's song?
(a) The song of the Redbird.
(b) The song of Making.
(c) The song of Rebirth.
(d) The song of Triumph.

11. What did the lowest kind of creature do?
(a) Both of these.
(b) Live openly in a mixed racial relationship.
(c) Live openly with a black woman.
(d) Neither of these.

12. How many years had past since Alvin had been an apprentice of Makepeace?
(a) Three.
(b) Four.
(c) Two.
(d) Five.

13. What did Peggy attempt to do?
(a) Use his caul to cause someone to come and wake him.
(b) Use his caul to make a branch fall from a tree.
(c) Use his caul to fend off the Unmaker.
(d) All of these.

14. What does the African slave girl think Peggy's voice belongs to?
(a) The Holy Virgin Mary.
(b) Both of these.
(c) Neither of these.
(d) The Holy Virgin Mother of God.

15. What does Peggy see when she looks into Alvin's future?
(a) That Alvin makes it out of the darkness only if he is woken.
(b) None of these.
(c) All paths lead to darkness, and none emerge.
(d) That Alvin makes it out of the darkness at the sacrifice of Arthur Stuarts life.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was customary for masters to do?

2. What did Dolores' hands look like?

3. What did the Prophet show Alvin?

4. What did Cavil do when the black girl protested?

5. What did Alvin say that angered Horace?

(see the answer keys)

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