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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Peggy wish to be?

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

3. What did Dolores ask for Cavil to do?

4. Where was Peggy headed?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Alvin dig out a well that he knew wouldn't do any good?

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

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

4. What does Peggy say that Mistress Modesty's knack is?

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

6. Why wasn't Alvin able to beat back the Unmaker initially when it had started to snow?

7. Why does Peggy not admire her father for helping Black slaves get north and free?

8. What did Peggy notice about Mistress Modesty's heart when she was looking at Peggy?

9. What things kept Alvin from running like a Red man?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the exchange of information that occurs between Measure and Alvin at the end of the novel. How do each benefit from the knowledge the other is willing to teach? Whose knowledge is more specific to certain circumstance? Explain.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Makepeace's treatment of Alvin while he was an indentured apprentice. What measures have come into place since Alvin's time to protect the interests of apprentices in North America?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the newer forms of technology that are talked about in the novel for the era that the novel was set. What are some of the newer ideas, concepts, and things that are discussed when the reader takes into account that the novel was set in the early 1800s?

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