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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Per Hansa's newborn baby's middle name mean?
(a) Victorious.
(b) Frail.
(c) Strong.
(d) Lively.

2. What does Store-Hans ask Per after the minister's first service?
(a) If he can be baptized.
(b) If the minister is real.
(c) If Beret has killed Permand.
(d) If he can go shoot some ducks.

3. What does Beret call the blizzards?
(a) Monster.
(b) Nightmares.
(c) Coldness.
(d) Blinding.

4. Where are the settlers when the question of changing their names comes up?
(a) Per Hansa's house.
(b) By Spring Creek.
(c) Worthington.
(d) Tonseten's house.

5. Per Hansa thinks that his wife is too _______ for a pregnant woman.
(a) Fat.
(b) Depressed.
(c) Thin.
(d) Old.

6. What happens two days after Per Hansa plants his wheat crop?
(a) Beret dies.
(b) He realizes he has planted the wrong seeds.
(c) A blizzard hits.
(d) There is a flood.

7. What name does Sorine suggest that Per Hansa use as his new name?
(a) Harstad.
(b) Hans.
(c) Helm.
(d) Holm.

8. Who teaches Per Hansa how to fish?
(a) Hans Olsa.
(b) The Tronders.
(c) The Hallings.
(d) Tonseten.

9. What strange dream does Beret have before it actually happens?
(a) Her mother's death.
(b) Her own death.
(c) Per Hansa's injury.
(d) The arrival of the locusts.

10. What does Beret believe will become of herself and her baby?
(a) Per Hansa will abandon them.
(b) They will be sent back East.
(c) They will become very close.
(d) They will die in labor.

11. Tonseten says that the settlers should take names that reflect what?
(a) Their new settlement.
(b) Their occupations.
(c) Their personalities.
(d) Their Norwegian heritage.

12. What is Per Hansa clutching in his hands when they find his body?
(a) Blankets.
(b) Beef jerky.
(c) Pictures of his kids.
(d) Staffs.

13. When Per Hansa gets lost in the blizzard, what does he begin to have hallucinations of?
(a) Norway.
(b) The Rocky Mountains.
(c) Beret and his children.
(d) The Atlantic Ocean.

14. What do the Solum boys build to help them return East?
(a) A wagon.
(b) A car.
(c) A boat.
(d) A sleigh.

15. Why does Hans Olsa ride out to his third quarter in the middle of a snowstorm?
(a) To get some lumber.
(b) To visit Per Hansa.
(c) To bury his dog.
(d) To look after his cattle.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the minister react when Tonseten tells him about his transgression?

2. How does Per Hansa react to Beret's preaching?

3. What does Beret insist that Hans Olsa do before he dies?

4. Who asks Tonseten to marry a couple for which he still feels guilt over marrying?

5. How long do the locusts plague the settlers?

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