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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. Several neighbors turn out to help ___________ at Harold's place as Harold is injured and unable to do the work himself.
(a) Pete
(b) Ty
(c) Loren
(d) Larry

2. The judge rules in the defendants' favor, charging Caroline and Larry with paying the _____________.
(a) Water fees
(b) The defendants for their time
(c) Land taxes
(d) Court costs

3. What is the word Rose says when she calls Ginny that causes Ginny to go back to Mason City?
(a) Daddy
(b) Caroline
(c) Cancer
(d) Hospital

4. ___________ discovers the remnants of the fifth miscarriage buried in the old dairy barn being converted for the hog operation.
(a) Larry
(b) Ty
(c) Jess
(d) Pete

5. The sorting of possession happens in the cold as _________ doesn't believe ventilation prevents kerosene heater fatalities.
(a) Loren
(b) Ginny
(c) Caroline
(d) Rose

Short Answer Questions

1. Ty is not settled, according to Ginny, and he is heading for a big hog operation in __________ where he hopes to land a job.

2. What does Rose tell Ginny to cook for Pammy and Linda before she takes them back with her?

3. Who covered for Caroline when Caroline was 14 and wanted to do something that Larry would have disapproved of?

4. Ginny and Rose are said to have wrecked the dreams of the character in #100, and that what ___________ did to them was their fault.

5. __________ was always patient and good humored, always moving slowly forward.

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Ginny describe the way she is feeling after the midnight conversation with Rose?

2. What does Mr. Cartier tell Ginny and Rose, Pete and Ty to do in order to keep up with their case?

3. What did Ginny do when she was 3-and-a-half that made her aware of her own skin?

4. What was the one thing, Ginny thinks, her father had stolen from her in her life and in her marriage?

5. What does Marv Carlson tell Ginny and Caroline they can do before the farm sale starts?

6. How is it shown that Ty is the better farmer of all of his neighbors and their farms?

7. Why do Ginny and Caroline go about dividing possessions in the cold as it is late November?

8. What does Rose's physician tell Ginny about the condition of Rose and about her prognosis?

9. What does Ginny believe is Rose's legacy to her daughters, Pammy and Linda?

10. What does Ginny do in order to attempt to poison her sister, Rose?

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