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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the children doing as Chapter 6 begins?
(a) Sledding.
(b) Going on a hayride.
(c) Tapping trees for syrup.
(d) Walking home from school.

2. Who hosts the Thanksgiving meal?
(a) The Lenoxes.
(b) The Shipmans.
(c) The Halls.
(d) The Millers.

3. What special day does Mr. Hall tell Catherine about?
(a) The day she was baptized.
(b) The day he married her mother.
(c) The day she was born.
(d) Christmas Day.

4. Mr. Hall tells his daughters a story about ___________________.
(a) a headless woman.
(b) Jesus.
(c) right and wrong.
(d) his childhood.

5. Who continues to receive punishment for stealing food?
(a) Tom.
(b) Asa.
(c) Sophy.
(d) The phantom.

6. Who is Catherine's friend?
(a) Carmen.
(b) Cassie.
(c) Calinda.
(d) Carrie.

7. What type of animals are used to clear the road?
(a) Cows.
(b) Mules.
(c) Oxen.
(d) Horses.

8. What does Asa feel is unfair at school?
(a) They go too long in the summer.
(b) The way the teacher changes the rules for boys and girls.
(c) They start too early in the fall.
(d) The hours are too long.

9. In what state does Catherine live?
(a) Vermont.
(b) New Hampshire.
(c) New York.
(d) Massachusetts.

10. What type of feast do the Halls have at their home?
(a) Christmas.
(b) New Year's.
(c) Barn raising.
(d) Harvest.

11. Whose mother has an accident with a cow?
(a) Mr. Hall's.
(b) Joshua Nelson's.
(c) Asa Sampson's.
(d) James Hallowell's.

12. Who is Mrs. Shipman's sister?
(a) Laney.
(b) Lucy.
(c) Laury.
(d) Lucia.

13. To what does Mr. Holt agree?
(a) To teach only what the town's elect group has approved.
(b) To teach the students who pay him.
(c) To teach what the state requires.
(d) To teach only the brightest children.

14. What frightens Catherine in the woods one day?
(a) A rustling noise.
(b) An apparition.
(c) An owl.
(d) A deer.

15. What do Cassie and Catherine eventually decide to do regarding the phantom?
(a) Shoot him.
(b) Turn him in.
(c) Give him food and a quilt.
(d) Trap him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What rules does the teacher change for boys and girls?

2. How does Mr. Hall react when Catherine tells him about the boys on the thin ice?

3. What has Asa seen that leads him to believe he has information about the apparition?

4. What does Cassie want to do about the runaway slave?

5. Where does Catherine's writing book appear after she loses it?

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