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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Robert find when he arrives home?
(a) New kittens
(b) Fresh cookies
(c) A new gun
(d) A birthday supper

2. What day is it when Robert finally gets out of bed?
(a) Saturday
(b) Friday
(c) Tuesday
(d) Sunday

3. Who does Robert think would enjoy eating the bird's prey?
(a) The minister
(b) Pinky
(c) His aunt
(d) Mr. Tanner

4. What is father working on when Robert gets home?
(a) A fence
(b) A wheelbarrow
(c) A tractor
(d) A harness

5. What is the name of the family's cat?
(a) Miss Sarah
(b) Susie Q
(c) Miss Susie
(d) Miss Fortune

6. What is the outcome of Robert's tutoring session?
(a) Worth every minute
(b) Not successful
(c) Very successful
(d) Promising

7. What does Robert hear after he leaves school and wanders the countryside?
(a) A girl singing
(b) A train
(c) An anguished noise
(d) Birds singing

8. What does Robert think is the role of a tutor?
(a) A painter
(b) An historian
(c) A trumpet player
(d) A minister

9. From where is the noise coming?
(a) A noon train
(b) A meadow
(c) A neighbor girl
(d) A cow having trouble delivering a calf

10. How does the cow injure Robert?
(a) Gores him
(b) Rolls over on him
(c) Bites and kicks him
(d) Sits on him

11. What does Robert help his father do on this day?
(a) Pick apples
(b) Milk the cows
(c) Harvest corn
(d) Mend a fence

12. Where must the piglet's pen be built?
(a) Near the house
(b) In the meadow
(c) Away from the cows
(d) Under a shade tree

13. Birds and animals create fences by their song or _______________.
(a) Killing
(b) Building
(c) Territory marking
(d) Nests

14. What does Robert feel as he spends the night with Pinky in her new home?
(a) Repulsion
(b) Gratitude
(c) Allergies
(d) Discomfort

15. Who does the tutor think it would be easier to teach than Robert?
(a) Pinky
(b) Papa
(c) Mama
(d) Mr. Tanner

Short Answer Questions

1. What are Papa's plans for Robert on this day?

2. What does Robert feel being wrapped around him?

3. What does the answer to #31 show to Robert and his father?

4. How does Robert finally get the cow to deliver the calf?

5. What does Robert feed his piglet?

(see the answer keys)

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