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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 killed Kin's father?

2. What does Kin see growing on the east side of the hollow where Diana and Carrie had been gathering herbs?

3. How many muskets does Kin say that the men have who are walking barefoot on a trail?

4. How long have people been living in the Massachusetts Bay colony at the time the story is told?

5. How many miles does Diana believe that they have walked westward since she was kidnapped?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Diana make some of the men guarding her and Carrie leary of her?

2. How do Kin and Yance know that the girls have escaped their captors?

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

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

5. What does Diana think of Kin when she first meets him?

6. Why is Kin cautious about helping the Indian he sees coming up the path?

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

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

9. How does Yance describe Diana Macklin?

10. What does Kin tell Anna Temperance of life at Shooting Creek?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Yance and Temperance's courtship.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Kin's and Diana's wedding, the doubts they have before the ceremony and how they resolve their doubts.

Essay Topic 3

Kin thinks of a few men that he dislikes, but he hates Bauer. Compare how Kin feels about his various enemies, past and present.

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