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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What did Helen's creation remind Adrian of?
(a) His grandmother's cooking.
(b) Holidays.
(c) His mother.
(d) The feasts they had when Helen's parents were still alive.

5. Helen was alarmed by _____________.
(a) Adrian's giddiness.
(b) Adrian's despair.
(c) Adrian's cuts and burns.
(d) Adrian's bumps and bruises.

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

7. What did Adrian do to accommodate the change in temperature?
(a) Moved the meat next door.
(b) Cut more wood.
(c) Started gathering bulbs and roots for cooking.
(d) Added extra blankets to the bed at night.

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

9. In the winter, what did Adrian make some money doing?
(a) Writing advertisements.
(b) Repairing cars.
(c) Woodworking.
(d) Delivering mail.

10. How did Helen and Adrian Hoover work together to fight the fire?
(a) Adrian pumped water from the lake while Helen sprayed the hose.
(b) Helen directed while Adrian sprayed with the hose.
(c) Adrian sprayed with the extinguisher while Helen got the spare extinguisher from the other cabin.
(d) Helen filled the buckets while Adrian threw them on the fire.

11. How much was Helen paid for her article?
(a) $50.
(b) $250.
(c) $1,000.
(d) $500.

12. Why did the photographer show up at the cabin?
(a) To follow up on a magazine contract Helen signed.
(b) To photograph the damage to the roof.
(c) To take pictures of birds.
(d) To assess the value of the property.

13. What animal started to hunt for the animal Helen domesticated?
(a) A fisher.
(b) A weasel.
(c) A bear.
(d) A wolverine.

14. What improvement did Adrian make to the cabin?
(a) He added plumbing.
(b) He replaced the roof.
(c) He installed a skylight.
(d) He wired electricity.

15. What did Adrian unleash when he was working on the roof?
(a) A flock of birds.
(b) An avalanche of snow.
(c) A flood of profanities.
(d) A flood of dammed water into the basement.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the first thing Helen and Adrian Hoover created with the mimeograph?

3. What did Helen and Adrian Hoover use Helen's check for when it came from the magazine?

4. In what mode is this book written?

5. How much did the Hoovers' food order weigh?

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