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

2. In what mode is this book written?
(a) Jeremiad.
(b) Industrial.
(c) Pastoral.
(d) Prophecy.

3. What did Helen order with her mimeograph?
(a) Envelopes for mass mailings.
(b) Mailing lists.
(c) Pencils and ink.
(d) Paints and canvas.

4. What became popular at the local gift shop?
(a) Helen's crochet work.
(b) Helen's cross-stitching.
(c) Adrian's notepaper.
(d) Adrian's woodworking.

5. What collapsed under the snow in Chapter 5, "Snow Scene"?
(a) A neighbor's roof.
(b) A cedar.
(c) The larger cabin roof.
(d) The icehouse roof.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Helen and Adrian Hoover work together to fight the fire?

2. What did Helen create at the beginning of Chapter 8, "A Beginning"?

3. What did Adrian unleash when he was working on the roof?

4. What did Hilda offer to Hoover in Chapter 5, "Snow Scene"?

5. What did the Hoovers do for evening entertainment?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Adrian get ice from the lake?

2. How did Adrian's notepaper fare at the gift store?

3. How did the Hoovers pass the time during the long winter nights?

4. Who was Walter?

5. What changes did Helen notice in animal behavior when spring came?

6. What did the fire in the workshop start from?

7. What realization did Helen come to after the workshop burned?

8. What was the old life the Hoovers left behind?

9. How did Helen find she had oriented herself in time?

10. Who was Blondie?

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