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

2. What did Helen say would let a poor family eat cheaply?
(a) Creativity.
(b) Self-reliance.
(c) Restraint.
(d) Noodles.

3. What did Adrian discover after removing snow from the cabin roof?
(a) The roof was rotten.
(b) Mice had used their socks for bedding
(c) Water was leaking into the cabin.
(d) A family of squirrels had nested in the roof.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Adrian scare off the hunter who had been lurking around the cabin?

2. What did Helen order with her mimeograph?

3. How would you describe Helen and Adrian Hoover's state by the time the flames subsided?

4. When was Adrian looking for his razor?

5. Who showed up after Helen and Adrian Hoover put out the fire?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What did the FBI want when they came to see the Hoovers?

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

5. How did the Hoovers come to stock up on groceries?

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

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

8. What was Helen alarmed by after the workshop fire was put out?

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

10. How did the Hoovers try to get animals close to the cabin?

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