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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 does Peggy aspire to be?
(a) Goodlady.
(b) Goodwoman.
(c) Goodwife.
(d) Goody Smith.

2. Who was in the General Store when Alvin arrived?
(a) Daisy.
(b) Pieter Vanderwoort.
(c) Martin.
(d) All of these.

3. What had Dr. Physicker done that embarrassed Alvin?
(a) Told him he was a good boy for protecting the teacher.
(b) Called him a second rate man for his brutality at the shore.
(c) Paid him for his protection of the new teacher.
(d) Patted him on the head.

4. What was Pauley Wiseman's main objection to Miss Larner living on her own?
(a) It wasn't proper.
(b) It wasn't normal.
(c) All of these.
(d) It wasn't acceptable.

5. Why must Peggy go and advance her schooling?
(a) Both of these.
(b) For Alvin's work.
(c) Neither of these.
(d) For Alvin as a man.

Short Answer Questions

1. What excuse does Old Peg offer for the reason that her son isn't allowed in the school?

2. Which of the men didn't want Arthur in the school?

3. How many letters of credit did Cavil give Reverend Philadelphia Thrower?

4. Who showed up with the Finders?

5. What did Dolores and Cavil fear?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was Mistress Modesty so upset?

2. What excuses were offered to Old Peg to try and talk sense into her?

3. How does Old Peg feel initially about the teacher?

4. Why is it that Miss Larner can't teach Alvin to be a Maker directly?

5. How did Miss Larner feel about Dr. Physicker's payment to Alvin?

6. Why didn't Alvin want to take away Mike Fink's protective hex? Why did he have to?

7. Why did Alvin figure Mock Berry didn't thank him for getting him a fair price?

8. Why did Old Peg shoot the Finder dead?

9. What might Peggy have said if she had gotten a chance, before her mama died?

10. Why didn't Alvin think that people were the product of God's imagination?

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