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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Mike help Larry after his leg is amputated?
(a) Mike harvests Larry's crops.
(b) Mike tends to Larry's livestock.
(c) Mike finds Larry a job he can do sitting.
(d) Mike carries Larry around town on his back.

2. What does Jonathan ask Mike and Katherine to do for his baby?
(a) Nurse it back to health.
(b) Help him raise it.
(c) Take it to Boston.
(d) Adopt it.

3. What does Mike use to bait the animal which is hanging around his house in Chapter 22?
(a) A dead rabbit.
(b) A live mouse.
(c) Table scraps.
(d) A bucket of oats.

4. What does Katherine's sister burn at lunch time?
(a) A casserole.
(b) A cake.
(c) Her fingers.
(d) Toast.

5. What animal starts to hang around the Flannigans' house in Chapter 22?
(a) A cat.
(b) A bear.
(c) A caribou.
(d) A wolf.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Constance's daughter die in Chapter 27?

2. What does the male Beauclaire twin pretend to be in Chapter 28?

3. What vegetable is a feast held in honor of in Chapter 21?

4. Where do the McTavish brothers return from in Chapter 23?

5. What is the name of the female Beauclaire twin?

Short Essay Questions

1. Before she dies, what does Constance ask Katherine to do?

2. Why does Mike decide to retrieve the final wolf trap he set outside the house in Chapter 22?

3. In Chapter 14, what does Constance say are the important things in life?

4. What overwhelms Katherine in Boston in Chapter 26?

5. How do Katherine and Mike grieve after the death of his children? How does Katherine feel about Mike's method of grieving?

6. Who comes to Katherine's door in Chapter 23? What makes Katherine feel cursed?

7. What memory does Katherine recall after Timmy Beauclaire's death?

8. What does Katherine realize about life as she is sewing in Chapter 28?

9. What kind of medicine does Mrs. Marlin come to Sarah for in Chapter 17? How does she explain to Katherine about giving Mrs. Marlin the medicine?

10. What plan does Katherine come up with to leave Canada and return to Boston?

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