View a FREE sample

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did Alvin know Po Doggly and Horace Guester had worked together many times before?

3. Why did Mock Berry stay so poor?

4. Why didn't the river rats hang onto the cart for longer?

5. How much change did Vanderwoort give Mock Berry?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was Old Peg fearful of the Fugitive Slave Treaty?

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

3. Why was everyone talking so friendly with the Finders? How did Alvin feel about them, and their flattery?

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

5. What did Peggy refuse to name?

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

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

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

9. For what reasons did Alvin make the manacles, and why didn't he put them in water to cool?

10. What did the changes Alvin made in Arthur Stuart do to his heartfire and futures according to Peggy?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss why having her own suite was so important to Miss Larner. What couldn't she have done while living at the roadhouse? Why did this desire to live alone so upset Old Peg?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the way the Red man, or Native Americans are talked about in this novel. References to the Native Americans are mostly spoken of in what tense? What does this lead the reader to believing in regards to the timeline?

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?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 1,135 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample