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

2. Who did Peggy figure could have saved the slave girl?
(a) Anga Berry.
(b) Dr, Whitley Physicker.
(c) Alvin.
(d) Taleswapper.

3. What did Alvin think about when he had woken?
(a) Neither of these.
(b) Both of these.
(c) How he had called Redbird to him.
(d) How he had caused it to become summer.

4. What did Alvin think when he 'saw' the fresh corpse beneath the soil?
(a) That the torch girl was buried there.
(b) Both of these.
(c) That someone was mad at the fresh body beneath the earth.
(d) Neither of these.

5. What kind of wood was good for finding water?
(a) Neither of these.
(b) Hickory.
(c) Willow.
(d) Both of these.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Alvin at this point in the story?

2. What would his career as a blacksmith teach Alvin?

3. What nationality was the girl who answered the door?

4. What was to happen in the ballroom downstairs?

5. Who was the runaway slave girl's father?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was it that stopped Alvin from being overcome by the Unmaker?

2. How did he treat his slaves following the appearance of his visitor?

3. How did Hank feel about Alvin?

4. What was the Unmaker's tool in the land?

5. Why did Hank Dowser seek to calm Makepeace Smith after he had riled him up?

6. What did Cavil do that he felt was godly and righteous?

7. What sacrifice did the Black slave girl make? Why did she make this choice?

8. Why did Alvin end up feeling like he was "half hisself"?

9. What had White folk found a way to calculate?

10. Why was the man that Peggy had been dancing with confused when Peggy stopped dancing?

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