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

2. How many Shaw-Nee survive?
(a) Thirty.
(b) Two dozen.
(c) Twenty.
(d) A dozen.

3. What will happen when Becca's daughter takes her place?
(a) She will become a spinner instead of a weaver.
(b) She will join Ta-Kumsaw wherever he is.
(c) She will be given leave to live her life.
(d) All of these.

4. What do the people who find Measure call him?
(a) A renegade.
(b) A Red.
(c) A traitor.
(d) A Spaniard.

5. What is the only thing that keeps the Prophet safe?
(a) None of these.
(b) His oaths.
(c) Sheer numbers.
(d) His vow to do no harm.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does de Maurepas deny Ta-Kumsaw and his people?

2. What gesture has Taleswapper brushed away too harshly?

3. What does Measure think when he has both his arm and leg broken?

4. What does Mike Fink recognize about the "war"?

5. What does Harrison comment that Measure looks like?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Alvin and Measure differ in the way they view their family?

2. Why doesn't Alvin leave when he is feeling so lonely in Ta-Kumsaw's presence?

3. What does Taleswapper have in his bag?

4. Why does La Fayette wish that Napoleon were merely a "vain posturer with a gift for seducing the loyalty of his betters"(266)?

5. What specifically hurts Alvin when he examines his brother?

6. Why does La Fayette want Napoleon out of command?

7. What does Alvin figure has happened when he explains what the Chok-Taw have done to the saddles?

8. What is interesting about Becca's eyes?

9. What is the difference between the oath of a land at peace and an angry land?

10. Where does Alvin find the fruit that he isn't allowed to eat any more? Why is this?

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