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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Spurning dry clothes, Larry had insisted that his ________ and banker be summoned in the storm.
(a) Caroline
(b) Lawyer
(c) Wife
(d) Daughters

2. ___________ is currently cooking three meals a day for three households.
(a) Larry
(b) Rose
(c) Ginny
(d) Jess

3. What has Rose been diagnosed with, which means she needs additional help with certain chores and tasks?
(a) Depression
(b) IBS
(c) Diabetes
(d) Cancer

4. What kind of plants seem to be fine, even though Ginny and Ty's relationship seems broken?
(a) Green bean
(b) Pumpkin
(c) Tomato
(d) Corn

5. __________ is complaining about the new red air conditioned Harvester tractor that was recently purchased.
(a) Larry
(b) Jess
(c) Loren
(d) Harold

6. What was wrong with the farmland when Ginny's grandparents arrived in the United States?
(a) It was a desert
(b) It didn't exist
(c) It was too small
(d) It was a swamp

7. Henry Dodge is a ___________ minister who is always giving sermons which will appeal to the farmers.
(a) Baptist
(b) Lutheran
(c) Pentecostal
(d) Catholic

8. What was revealed under the marshland that once stood in the farm area that Larry now owns?
(a) Natural crops
(b) Fertile soil
(c) A river
(d) Clay

9. Ginny and her sister, Rose, raised Caroline the best they could after their ____________ died and could not help them.
(a) Uncle
(b) Father
(c) Mother
(d) Nanny

10. On Wednesday, what does Ginny wander around to find as she used to go there as a child?
(a) The swings
(b) The neighbor's house
(c) Old pond
(d) The woods

11. Larry is whining to everyone at the picnic instead of waiting for people to talk to him, mostly about the conditions at the _________.
(a) Ericson home
(b) Farm
(c) Funny farm
(d) Nursing home

12. The farm stretching a mile along Country Road 686 where _______ numbered roads run east to west.
(a) Even
(b) Odd
(c) All
(d) No

13. As the storm clouds form on the horizon, a ___________ is already issued for the country surrounding and including the farm.
(a) Tornado watch
(b) Thunderstorm watch
(c) Tornado warning
(d) Thunderstorm warning

14. What is the name of the road that Country Road 686 intersects with, according to the narrator?
(a) Cabot
(b) River
(c) Farm
(d) Peave

15. Jess mentions he has 13 years of experience in ___________ farming as well as a shallow understanding of Buddhism.
(a) Chicken
(b) Pig
(c) Corn
(d) Organic

Short Answer Questions

1. Jess gushes about a nearby organic farm that seeing its 20 varieties of non-hybrid __________ is like meeting the Buddha.

2. Who bought the air-conditioned International Harvester tractor in a bright red color, which annoyed Larry?

3. How old is the narrator when the story opens and the description of the farm is being shared with the reader?

4. Larry purchases new ______________ he doesn't need and leaves them outside where they get ruined by the rain.

5. What does Jess ask Ginny to do when he surprises her by showing up at her house?

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