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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 is Gilbert going to send to Frederic?

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

3. What do the people who find Measure call him?

4. In what way is Napoleon Bonaparte exactly what he has seduced people into believing he is?

5. What does Ta-Kumsaw say about the Irrakwa?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Ta-Kumsaw convinced is the reason for Alvin's grief? What is Taleswapper's argument?

2. What is interesting about Becca's eyes?

3. Why does Alvin believe there is some witchery involved in regards to Ta-Kumsaw?

4. How does Ta-Kumsaw survive wounds that would have felled any other man and how do the enemy soldiers react to this?

5. What does Taleswapper have in his bag?

6. How is Prophetstown a miraculous place?

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

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

9. For what reasons does Frederic don the amulet?

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

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 Ta-Kumsaw's thoughts about Alvin both before and after the trip to the Eight Face Mound. How do they change, if they change at all? What do you think is largely responsible for this? Explain.

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast Ta-Kumsaw and Napoleon Bonaparte as generals. Who made the better leader and why? What characteristics does a general whose fame lasts throughout the ages possess? What must they have done to gain infamy?

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