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

2. What is Eloise's surname?
(a) O'Connor.
(b) Fredericks.
(c) Lutz.
(d) Wentworth.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of Abbie's children gets engaged in Chapter 20?

2. Where does Mack go when his is seventeen?

3. How old is Abbie in Chapter 19?

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

5. Where does Abbie's child want to take Abbie on a trip in Chapter 28?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why doesn't Abbie accept Grace's invitation to visit Scotland and Ireland?

2. What begins in Chapter 24 and how does it affect the Deal family?

3. What emotions does Abbie feel after the death of her son?

4. Why does Abbie sell off much of the Deal land in Chapter 25?

5. Why do the Deal children miss school in Chapter 17? What does Abbie have them do?

6. What is Margaret's response when Abbie offers her her mother's pearls?

7. What happens when Will tells Abbie about a local teacher offering art lessons?

8. What do Abbie's children encourage her to do when Abbie reaches her seventies?

9. What amuses Abbie about Eloise's parenting?

10. What is Eloise Wentworth like?

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