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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Measure do while in the cell?
(a) Dig.
(b) Plot an escape.
(c) Shake in fear.
(d) Cry.

2. How many years has Napoleon Bonaparte waited for his war?
(a) Two years.
(b) Three years.
(c) Six years.
(d) Four years.

3. What does Mike Fink think of life?
(a) None of these.
(b) It is a contest, and death is what happens to those who are second best.
(c) It is foolishly long.
(d) It is pointless, and death holds so many more possibilities than life.

4. What does Measure think when he has both his arm and leg broken?
(a) None of these.
(b) Why hasn't he fainted?
(c) How glad he is that Alvin isn't with him.
(d) Why have they chosen him?

5. Why doesn't Becca ever have to ask about her daughter?
(a) All of these.
(b) She knows that people will look after her daughter.
(c) She knows that Ta-Kumsaw will keep her safe.
(d) No harm ever comes to people who work the loom.

6. Why does Alvin want to go with Ta-Kumsaw?
(a) Neither of these.
(b) He can learn more with him than any other man in the world.
(c) Both of these.
(d) He can be a part of something beneficial.

7. What would Armor do to stop the massacre?
(a) Stand naked half the day in front of all the ladies in church.
(b) Give up the breath in his lungs.
(c) Do anything.
(d) All of these.

8. Why is Tenska-Tawa sending Alvin with Ta-Kumsaw?
(a) He wants protection for his brother.
(b) Neither of these.
(c) Both of these.
(d) He wants Alvin to turn Red.

9. Why does Frederic immediately put on the amulet?
(a) All of these.
(b) It is priceless beyond compare.
(c) It is of solid gold.
(d) It lends him status.

10. What does the Mound offer Alvin?
(a) Both of these.
(b) Water,
(c) Neither of these.
(d) Food.

11. What does Measure reveal to Ta-Kumsaw?
(a) His name is carved in the saddle.
(b) Neither of these.
(c) His name and his brother's name are carved in the saddle.
(d) Both of these.

12. What does de Maurepas deny Ta-Kumsaw and his people?
(a) All of these.
(b) Gunpowder.
(c) Guns.
(d) Lead.

13. For a cause what will men of Napoleons army let die?
(a) Neither of these.
(b) Both of these.
(c) Their wives.
(d) Their children.

14. What does Ta-Kumsaw say about the Irrakwa?
(a) Neither of these.
(b) They are the urine of sick dogs.
(c) They had been cruel, vicious animals before the White man had come and are worse now.
(d) Both of these.

15. Why doesn't Measure want to go home without Alvin?
(a) Neither of these.
(b) He doesn't want to face his mother without Alvin in tow.
(c) He doesn't trust the Reds to make sure Alvin will be okay.
(d) Both of these.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what are the Reds armed?

2. How do visions come to Taleswapper?

3. What name is Harrison now to go by?

4. For what does Measure keep wishing?

5. What has the White man won?

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