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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 old is Abbie in Chapter 19?
(a) Forty-five.
(b) Thirty-six.
(c) Thirty-nine.
(d) Forty-one.

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

3. What money is used to buy the piano?
(a) The money Grandma Deal won from gambling.
(b) The money that came from Will's savings bonds.
(c) The money Mack sent his grandmother for her birthday.
(d) The money Doc Matthews paid for Will to go to war.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Abbie name the child she has in Chapter 16?

2. What do Abbie and John discuss in Chapter 21?

3. How does Abbie feel when she returns to Nebraska?

4. What does Abbie teach the children with while they are out of school?

5. What is Eloise's surname?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Abbie decide to do since everyone else is pursuing their dreams?

3. What happens in the Deals' lives in 1880?

4. What money does Grandma Deal use to buy Isabelle a piano? What does she plan to do with the remainder of the money?

5. What does a man bring to dinner in Chapter 16? What does this remind Abbie of?

6. What group is Will involved with in Chapter 19?

7. What is Eloise Wentworth like?

8. How does Christine help Abbie in Chapter 20?

9. How does John feel about running the farm?

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

(see the answer keys)

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