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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. What did Alice and Sam make with sheepskins they were given?

2. How many days of rain caused Sam's dam to wash out?

3. In Part 5, who does Sam think is getting into the root cellar?

4. How big of a pond does Sam want to create for a water mill?

5. What is the lounging chair made of that Sam sits in at the beginning of Chapter 1?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Bando?

2. What did Sam, Alice, and their friends do for Thanksgiving dinner last year?

3. What will Longbridge do with Frightful?

4. How did Alice design her tree house when she first came to live on the mountain?

5. How did Sam and Alice learn to build a dam that doesn't wash out?

6. Why doesn't Sam want electricity?

7. How does Sam describe the June morning at the beginning of Part 1?

8. What is a watermill and why did Sam decide to build one shortly after Alice decided to stay on the mountain?

9. Why doesn't Sam allow Alice to edge all the paths with stones?

10. What is a plumping mill?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Mrs. Strawberry provides Sam with the first clues as to Alice's destination. How does Mrs. Strawberry give Sam a starting point to look for Alice? Would Sam have known where Alice went without Mrs. Strawberry's help?

Essay Topic 2

Sam decides that Alice is on an extended journey. Why does Sam at first think she has no business going off on her own? Why does change his mind and decide she is entitled to an adventure?

Essay Topic 3

Sam had a chance to have a goshawk and to get Frightful back. Why didn't same keep the goshawk or try to get Frightful back? Why did he have mixed feelings about not keeping the birds?

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