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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 did Helen and Adrian Hoover use Helen's check for when it came from the magazine?
(a) Winter preparations.
(b) Buying a motor for their boat.
(c) Fixing the roof.
(d) Celebrating.

2. What occasionally required them to double their fire-fighting efforts?
(a) Exploding gasoline.
(b) Collapsing roof beams.
(c) Exploding turpentine.
(d) Spreading flames.

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

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

5. What did Adrian build at the beginning of Chapter 5, "A Snow Scene"?
(a) A lean-to.
(b) A wood shed.
(c) An icehouse.
(d) A toboggan.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Helen order with her mimeograph?

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

3. How did Adrian's invention's trial run end?

4. What project did Helen say she would like to take on?

5. What does Helen say ended with this realization?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Helen and Adrian Hoover avoid having to sell one of their cabins?

2. What animals did the Hoovers see near their cabin?

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

4. What was the benefit of the structure Adrian built?

5. Describe the chimney fire.

6. What happened when Adrian went up to remove snow and ice from the roof?

7. What happened to the Hoovers' chickens?

8. Who was Blondie?

9. Why did the chickens end up in the cabin with Helen and Adrian?

10. What was the Hoovers' first source of income from the cabin?

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