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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. Who has Ta-Kumsaw come to meet in the valley?

2. What name is Harrison now to go by?

3. What gesture has Taleswapper brushed away too harshly?

4. Why does Gilbert applaud a horrible show?

5. For a cause what will men of Napoleons army let die?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the Reds do when faced with death at the hand of the Whites?

2. What is the only way that Ta-Kumsaw can get to Alvin and why does he need to do so?

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

4. What is the rule regarding the letters?

5. What does Alvin know will happen by the third time he tells the story of what happened at Tippy-Canoe?

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

7. What is White Murderer Harrison's curse?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the decay of the land as predicted by Tenska-Tawa and Ta-Kumsaw. Does it come to pass? How or why not? Are the forest and the land still healthy? How do you know and what information can you offer and cite to support your conclusion?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Caucasian and Native American relations since settlers arrived from Europe. Under what precedence did Caucasian people take over the land that had once belonged strictly to the native peoples?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the difference in Measure and Alvin's approach to family. What is the most important thing in regards to Measure, the thing that trumps all other considerations? Is this a narrow perspective? Explain. Is Alvin's concern a greater cause in general? With whose opinion do you identify and why?

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