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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How are Abbie's friends best described?
(a) As bumpkins.
(b) As sophisticated.
(c) As snobbish.
(d) As salt-of-the-earth.

3. What does John start to do in Chapter 21?
(a) Work on the community council.
(b) Chores on the farm.
(c) Make plans to move abroad.
(d) Study music.

4. Where does Abbie's child want to take Abbie on a trip in Chapter 28?
(a) To California.
(b) To New York.
(c) To Ireland and Scotland.
(d) To Vienna.

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

6. What natural disaster strikes in 1880?
(a) A drought.
(b) A dust storm.
(c) A plague of grasshoppers.
(d) A tornado.

7. How old is Grace in Chapter 28?
(a) Twenty-six.
(b) Twenty.
(c) Thirty-eight.
(d) Thirty.

8. Where does Mack find a job?
(a) At a hospital.
(b) At a college.
(c) At a shipyard.
(d) At a bank.

9. What does Margaret do to pass her time?
(a) Creates art.
(b) Writes.
(c) Sews.
(d) Gardens.

10. What do Abbie's children encourage her to do in Chapter 27?
(a) Sell her house.
(b) Perform in a local concert.
(c) Go on a trip.
(d) Write her life story.

11. How does Abbie respond to John's dream?
(a) She encourages John.
(b) She tells John to put his dreams on hold.
(c) She puts John down.
(d) She laughs at John.

12. What does Grandma Deal save her money for?
(a) To take a trip to Omaha.
(b) To leave to her grandchildren.
(c) To pay for arrangements after her death.
(d) To make improvements to the farmhouse.

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

14. Who welcomes a child in Chapter 24?
(a) Margaret and her husband.
(b) Sarah Lutz.
(c) Christine's daughter.
(d) Mack and his wife.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Isabelle announce toward the end of Chapter 24?

2. Where does John go in Chapter 24?

3. In Chapter 23, how long has it been since Abbie went to Iowa?

4. After the death of her son, what does Abbie begin to feel toward Will?

5. What kind of school does Margaret's son attend?

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