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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 was Alvin's first Making?

2. What does Peggy aspire to be?

3. What kind of birds' nests were in the Hatrack bridge eaves?

4. What did Dolores and Cavil fear?

5. Who got out of Dr. Physicker's carriage first?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did Alvin begin to notice, working at the smithy?

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

4. Why did Old Peg shoot the Finder dead?

5. How did Alvin realize that Miss Larner was right?

6. What issues did Pauley have in regard to Miss Larner living alone? How did she respond to that?

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

8. Why was Alvin so offended at the idea that Miss Larner had paid him to look after her?

9. Why was Old Peg Guester so upset that Arthur Stuart couldn't be taught at the schoolhouse?

10. How did Alvin feel about women after witnessing the relationships of the Smiths and Guesters?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Alvin's behavior at Hatrack Mouth as gallant heroism, or unabashed brutality. Document your opinion either utilizing Alvin's opinion of himself while he was playing up to the river rats, or Miss Larner's behavior after he had defended her honor.

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast Measure's relationship with Delphi to any other relationship in the book. Explain what specifically makes them different. How does Measure make Delphi feel? How is this evident in the authors description? What about Makepeace and Gertie? Horace and Old Peg?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Peggy's feelings for Alvin. Are they realistic? Why or why not? Explain how her future changes as Alvin finally loves her, not a boyish kind of love, but that of a man, and how it would have been had Peggy stayed in Hatrack.

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