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

2. What was the most difficult lesson Mistress Modesty had taught Peggy?
(a) To be truly happy.
(b) To be kind and polite.
(c) Not to use her knack if she didn't need to.
(d) To smile with sheer joy.

3. How old is Alvin at this point in the story?
(a) Eight.
(b) Ten.
(c) Twelve.
(d) Eleven.

4. What does Makepeace say in regards to Alvin?
(a) He's a smart boy.
(b) He's a good kid.
(c) All of these.
(d) He's a natural farrier.

5. In what way was Peggy and Mistress Modesty both not a part of the masquerade?
(a) Neither depended on anyone else's opinion of them.
(b) All of these.
(c) Neither had shown up in costume.
(d) Neither were pretending to be something they weren't.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mistress Modesty ask Peggy to be?

2. What did Dolores ask for Cavil to do?

3. What did the lowest kind of creature do?

4. What name did Cavil cry out that made his visitor recoil?

5. What did Peggy figure out about why her mother had been disappointed with her?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did Peggy see the world around the Hio?

3. Why does Cavil perceive his visitor as an overseer?

4. What did Hank understand in regards to Alvin that he wouldn't have otherwise?

5. Why couldn't Alvin simply fill the well that he had dug and make Hank Dowsers' well good?

6. For what reasons did Cavil find himself cursed?

7. Why does Horace need his secret kept, and why is it in the best interests of Alvin not to tell his secret?

8. Why do most people feel guilty when they hear the story of the Tippy Canoe Massacre?

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

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

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