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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. Why does Robert promise two piglets to Mr. Tanner?
(a) Exchange for repair services
(b) For his birthday
(c) As a stud fee
(d) For taking him to the fair

2. What does Mr. Tanner warn Robert about when they reach the fairgrounds?
(a) Pickpockets
(b) Sour apples
(c) Perverts in the restrooms
(d) Eating too much candy

3. What are the names of Mr. Tanner's horses?
(a) Frick and Frack
(b) Polka Dot and Zig Zag
(c) Quaker Lady and Quaker Gent
(d) Princess Elizabeth and Princess Sarah

4. What Shaker belief overshadows Robert's happiness at the prospect of paying off the farm?
(a) The sin of ambition
(b) The sin of greed
(c) The sin of pride
(d) The sin of jealousy

5. What is the unspoken understanding in the Peck household?
(a) Pinky must be slaughtered for food
(b) Robert does not like farming
(c) Mama is dying
(d) Papa and Mama will divorce eventually

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Papa and the other men put into a barrel?

2. What else does Mama send with Robert to go to the fair?

3. What does Robert do with the oxen at the fair?

4. How many piglets has Pinky produced

5. What time of day is it when Robert returns from the fair?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Robert's maturity affecting his view on religion

2. Explain Mama's position on Widow Bascom's situation.

3. What phrase of Papa's is Robert mindful of as he rides with Mr. Tanner?

4. What have been Robert's experiences with Widow Bascom?

5. Why does Mama send Robert out to hunt for a gray squirrel?

6. What good news does Robert get in Chapter 9?

7. How does Chapter 8 demonstrate the tolerance of the people in the Shaker religion?

8. What does it mean to "weasel" a dog?

9. Why does the family not have enough food to eat for the winter?

10. On what topic must Robert remind himself not to be too greedy?

(see the answer keys)

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