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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who found Larry when he was raging, soaked, and maniacal during the storm?
(a) Rose
(b) Harold
(c) Loren
(d) Jess

2. 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 a swamp
(d) It was too small

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

4. What are Pammy and Linda peering at as they begin to walk toward the house in the tableau of hope that Ginny envisions?
(a) Carrot
(b) Bird
(c) Ditch
(d) Money

5. Pammy and Linda decide to play with each other in another part of ________ house as the parents are playing a game.
(a) Ginny's
(b) Harold's
(c) Rose's
(d) Larry's

6. Ginny fears that __________ had sensed something between her and Jess but she wasn't sure.
(a) Caroline
(b) Ty
(c) Rose
(d) Larry

7. 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

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

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

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

11. Where would this new operation in #64 be situated once the loans and paperwork were in order?
(a) Chicken coop
(b) Dairy barn
(c) Abandoned house
(d) A newly tilled field

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

13. Ginny cannot think of ________ without thinking of her room, which she cannot think of without thinking of her father.
(a) Rose
(b) Jess
(c) Caroline
(d) Her mother

14. Ginny's grandparents were the ones who arrived from ____________ to find their new farm land to not be up to their expectations.
(a) Germany
(b) Italy
(c) England
(d) France

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Ginny and her sister, Rose, raised Caroline the best they could after their ____________ died and could not help them.

3. Who is the narrator of the story who begins the story by describing the setting where they grew up?

4. Ginny wonders how many ___________ visits it might take to cure Larry and Rose after what happened.

5. What kind of plants seem to be fine, even though Ginny and Ty's relationship seems broken?

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