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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. Near what type of tree does Yance find tracks of men walking barefoot?

2. What does Kin tell Yance to do while he is gone?

3. After finding the girls, how big around are some of the trees in the forest that Kin and Yance travel through?

4. How many Indians do Yance and Kin see when they are leading the girls through the forest?

5. What color horse does Yance ride?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Henry learn to speak English?

2. Why does Kin believe that something is on the trail he watches while he hunts?

3. How does Yance describe Diana Macklin?

4. What does Diana tell Kin about Samuel Maverick?

5. Why does Kin decide he will go to the West Indies?

6. Why did the northern settlers put Yance in the stocks and how did he get free?

7. What evidence is available that could cause Diana to be brought up before the assises?

8. When Yance is in the stocks, what does a sailor tell him about Pittingel?

9. Why is there peace between Tenaco's tribe and the white men?

10. Why were the northern settlers not hunters?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Kin discusses the importance of reading, thinking and learning. Discuss Kin's education and what education means to Kin.

Essay Topic 2

Captain Tilly marries Kin and Diana. Discuss how the relationship between Kin and Diana developed.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss how dialogue is used in the novel to reveal information about characters and to advance plot.

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