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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. What does Devola dream about buying with the money from wildcrafting?
(a) A car.
(b) Ice cream.
(c) A book.
(d) A present for Roy Luther.

2. What is Devola's reaction when she hears of her father's death?
(a) She is silent.
(b) She cries.
(c) She begins yelling.
(d) She screams.

3. Who died years before the novel begins?
(a) Devola Luther.
(b) Kiser Pease.
(c) Mary Call's mother.
(d) Kiser Pease's mother.

4. What does Mary Call lie about during their visit to the store in Chapter 4?
(a) Her father's health.
(b) What they need at home.
(c) Romey's age.
(d) How much money they have.

5. Who asks Mary Call to get razors at the store?
(a) Devola.
(b) Romey.
(c) Ima Dean.
(d) Kiser Pease.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mary Call tell Roy Luther in Chapter 5 before he dies?

2. What do the children think about her wildcrafting idea?

3. What do the Luthers discover about wildcrafting?

4. Where do they find Kiser Pease in Chapter 2?

5. Who mentions that they haven't seen Kiser Pease in a few days and he might be sick?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Mary Call contradict herself when she tells Romey to leave an IOU?

2. What do Romey and Mary Call realize about their father in burying him?

3. Why is Kiser so eager to please the Luthers?

4. How does Romey react when he finds out about his father's death?

5. What happens when Mary Call tells Kiser in Chapter 3 about the paper he signed?

6. One of Mary Call's promises to her father has to do with charity. How is Mary Call similar to her father in this view?

7. Why does Mary Call feel angry during Kiser's visit?

8. What are the reasons why Mary Call is putting off the trip to the store?

9. In what ways is wildcrafting more difficult than the Luthers thought?

10. Devola is the oldest sister of the Luther family, but in what ways does Mary Call take on that roll?

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