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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long does Grandma Deal live after moving in with Abbie?
(a) Two years.
(b) Five years.
(c) Ten years.
(d) One year.

2. In what year does Grace finish college?
(a) 1899.
(b) 1902.
(c) 1909.
(d) 1911.

3. What does Will do in 1880?
(a) Buys two cows.
(b) Digs a cellar.
(c) Builds a barn.
(d) Fences in the Deal farm.

4. Who volunteers to fight in the conflict in Chapter 24?
(a) Stanley.
(b) John.
(c) Fred Jr.
(d) Mack.

5. What does Abbie do when she falls on hard times in Chapter 23?
(a) Sells a painting Will made.
(b) Sells off farm land.
(c) Sells her house.
(d) Sells her grandmother's pearls.

6. In Chapter 18, why does Abbie put her trip on hold?
(a) Because her son becomes ill.
(b) Because she is needed to help with the harvest.
(c) So that the Deal family can pay bills.
(d) To send her daughter to school.

7. What does Abbie get caught in on her way home at the end of Chapter 19?
(a) A rushing stream.
(b) Thick mud.
(c) A hail storm.
(d) A snowstorm.

8. What conflict begins in Chapter 24?
(a) The Boer War.
(b) The War of 1812.
(c) The Spanish-American war.
(d) The Civil War.

9. Where does Will die?
(a) At the hospital.
(b) In his truck.
(c) In his easy chair.
(d) In the farmyard.

10. What do Abbie and John discuss in Chapter 21?
(a) What they would do if either of them died.
(b) Whether Abbie should take singing lessons.
(c) Whether they should move back to Iowa.
(d) Funeral arrangements for Abbie's mother.

11. What does Abbie name the child she has in Chapter 16?
(a) John.
(b) Grace.
(c) Isabelle.
(d) Basil.

12. What does Grace do for a living?
(a) She is a politician.
(b) She is a professor.
(c) She is a nurse.
(d) She is an architect.

13. Who is Mack married to?
(a) Emma.
(b) Mary.
(c) Elizabeth.
(d) Hannah.

14. Which family member is John said to take after?
(a) Grandma Deal.
(b) Abbie's mother.
(c) Will.
(d) Basil Mackenzie.

15. Where does Mack go when his is seventeen?
(a) Chicago.
(b) Des Moines.
(c) Lincoln.
(d) Omaha.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Abbie write in Chapter 22?

2. What does Mack buy in Chapter 26?

3. Where do Abbie's children encourage her to move to when Grace finishes high school?

4. What do John and Eloise name their son?

5. What does John start to do in Chapter 21?

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