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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Gertie direct the mule into the path of the car?
(a) To make the car crash
(b) She could not control the mule
(c) To try to kill herself
(d) To make them stop to help

2. Who tells Gertie that she cannot whip them as she threatened?
(a) Clytie
(b) Cassie
(c) Reuben
(d) Enoch

3. Why are the children quarrelsome at the end of chapter five?
(a) They are bored
(b) They are tired
(c) They are excited
(d) They are afraid

4. At the beginning of chapter five, why does Gertie awaken early?
(a) Noises outside
(b) The kids wake her up
(c) A dream about Henley
(d) Clovis wakes her up

5. How did Clovis get his job?
(a) On his experience
(b) The tremendous need of the company
(c) By telling lies
(d) By bribing the boss

6. How much money did Gertie inherit?
(a) $100
(b) $500
(c) $300
(d) $50

7. What happened to the shaving strop?
(a) Cassie hid it
(b) It is in the trash
(c) Clovis took it with him
(d) It is broken

8. What does Gertie enjoy imagining?
(a) Life after her children are grown
(b) Henley still being alive
(c) Life for Clovis once he is in the Army
(d) Her life at Tipton Place

9. Where does Clytie think Clovis has gone?
(a) Left home
(b) Just to get his physical
(c) To war
(d) To work in a factory

10. Why does Gertie vomit?
(a) Did not want to go to Detroit
(b) Pregnancy
(c) Nerves from traveling with the children
(d) The unfamiliar feeling, sights and smells of the train

11. Which of the following is a climactic reversal of fortune?
(a) Old John's preliminary agreement to sell the place
(b) Cassie's difficulty learning to read
(c) Mother's manipulating Gertie into going into the city
(d) Gertie wondering where Clovis is and when she will be able to buy the Tipton Place

12. Which of the following words best describes how Gertie feels after seeing the school?
(a) Excited
(b) Surprised
(c) Disappointed
(d) Relieved

13. What does Gertie hope to buy one day?
(a) A car
(b) Tipton Place
(c) Titon Farms
(d) New clothes

14. How does Gertie travel at the beginning of chapter one?
(a) Car
(b) Donkey
(c) Truck
(d) Mule

15. When does Gertie think Clovis will return home?
(a) The next day
(b) In a few weeks
(c) Never
(d) After the war

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Gertie's mother say leads Henley into heathenism?

2. Why does Gertie leave many trees alone when she goes out for wood to make axe handles?

3. Which of the following is the medical procedure which Gertie performed on Amos?

4. Which of the following characters is the main character?

5. Which word best describes the officer's feelings for Gertie before she preformed the medical procedure on Amos?

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