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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What project did Helen say she would like to take on?
(a) Making stamps for decorating Christmas cards.
(b) Writing individual Christmas cards to their friends.
(c) Making ice cream.
(d) Writing a Christmas letter.

2. In what way did Adrian take pity on the animal that was hunting the domesticated animal?
(a) He cut down a ball of suet it couldn't reach.
(b) He trapped the domesticated animal for it to eat.
(c) He left food on the ground for it.
(d) He left the door open for the animal to come out of the cold.

3. The Hoovers supplemented their food supply with ______________.
(a) Waterfowl.
(b) Edible plants.
(c) Fish.
(d) Trapping squirrels.

4. What did the hunter animal eat when the Hoovers ran out of food for the animals?
(a) The domesticated animal's caches.
(b) It tried to attack the Hoovers.
(c) The Hoovers' food supply.
(d) The domesticated animal.

5. What did the Hoovers do for evening entertainment?
(a) They played charades.
(b) They would sing and play guitar.
(c) They would hike into the woods.
(d) Adrian read to Helen.

6. What was Helen responding to with what she created?
(a) Responses to their advertisements.
(b) Their lack of money.
(c) A huge grocery bill.
(d) Their planned winter food consumption.

7. What did Adrian say was the likely cause of the fire?
(a) Bad wiring from the electrical wires.
(b) Buildup of fumes from the varnish.
(c) A lightning strike.
(d) A spark from the generator.

8. What did Adrian run for a short trial?
(a) His power plant.
(b) A warmer for the chickens.
(c) The engine for the boat.
(d) A refrigerator.

9. What tried to scare off the animal that scared off the squirrels?
(a) Ravens.
(b) Crows.
(c) Jays.
(d) Cardinals.

10. What caught fire in the cabin?
(a) The window curtains.
(b) The dining room table.
(c) The chimney.
(d) The stove.

11. What does Helen say ended with this realization?
(a) Their old life.
(b) Their faith in nature.
(c) Their hope of living in the woods.
(d) Their commitment to a new world.

12. Which is NOT one of the Hoovers' chickens?
(a) Crown Prince.
(b) Lester.
(c) Bedelia.
(d) Tulip.

13. Adrian converted the ice house to ______________.
(a) A store house.
(b) A root cellar.
(c) A refrigerator.
(d) A chicken coop for winter.

14. What secondary benefit did Adrian's building project have?
(a) It supported the house.
(b) It insulated one side of the house.
(c) It sheltered the entryway.
(d) It would help them carry heavy loads in the snow.

15. What did the visitor want?
(a) Shelter
(b) To install a weather monitor.
(c) Information about Helen's colleagues.
(d) Directions.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Helen suggest they could make a living?

2. Helen was alarmed by _____________.

3. What arrived with Helen's pension check?

4. How did Helen's attempts to socialize with the locals tend to go?

5. What did Helen begin to plan in Chapter 6 "Time of Thawing"?

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