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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. Where do Abbie's children encourage her to move to when Grace finishes high school?
(a) Omaha.
(b) Grand Island.
(c) Lincoln.
(d) Bellevue.

2. What does Grace refuse to do in her life?
(a) Get married.
(b) Have children.
(c) Move out of state.
(d) Invest in the stock market.

3. How does Abbie feel when she returns to Nebraska?
(a) Regretful.
(b) Lonely.
(c) Happy.
(d) Burdened.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Will die?

2. What is Eloise's surname?

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

4. What money is used to buy the piano?

5. What does Abbie name her daughter in Chapter 20?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Abbie think of the results of her writing efforts?

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

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

4. What is Eloise Wentworth like?

5. What does Mack do when he is seventeen years old?

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

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

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

9. How does John feel about running the farm?

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

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