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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do many of the workers live?
(a) Tents.
(b) Campers.
(c) Camp houses.
(d) Trailer parks.

2. What does Janey sense as she sits near the river?
(a) Someone is almost drowning.
(b) It is going to storm.
(c) Someone else is in the area.
(d) Her mother really needs her.

3. What place does Mr. Larkin finish in in the contest?
(a) Second.
(b) Third.
(c) First.
(d) Fourth.

4. Who watches over Mrs. Larkin as Janey heads to town to find the doctor?
(a) Mrs. Romero.
(b) Mrs. Gomez.
(c) Mrs. Sanchez.
(d) Mrs. Ramirez.

5. Why does Mrs. Larkin not want to go to a hospital?
(a) They don't have money to pay for it.
(b) She is afraid of hospitals.
(c) They are leaving tomorrow.
(d) She doesn't want to scare Janey.

6. The man who picks the most cotton in the contest will win an additional _________________.
(a) $20.
(b) $500.
(c) $50.
(d) $125.

7. What is waiting for Janey inside the new house?
(a) A poster bed.
(b) The willow plate.
(c) A book shelf.
(d) A TV.

8. Who is the librarian?
(a) Miss Shroyer.
(b) Miss Kerrigan.
(c) Miss Welbaum.
(d) Miss Adams.

9. What arrives at the school and interrupts class?
(a) The milk truck.
(b) The traveling infirmary.
(c) The fire truck.
(d) The library truck.

10. What does the Larkin family have all they want of on the farm?
(a) Chickens.
(b) Milk and eggs.
(c) Pigs.
(d) Corn.

11. Who will be a swamper for Mr. Larkin today?
(a) John Shannon.
(b) Jose Ramirez.
(c) Mrs. Larkin.
(d) Mr. Romero.

12. What does Janey hear on her way home?
(a) A gunshot.
(b) A duck whistle.
(c) A train whistle.
(d) Children playing.

13. How much rent money does Mr. Anderson return to the Larkins?
(a) $100.
(b) $25.
(c) $15.
(d) $75.

14. Janey thinks the creature in #99 is _______________.
(a) fat.
(b) fast.
(c) beautiful.
(d) ugly.

15. Why are the Larkins up so early at the beginning of Chapter 6?
(a) They are going to the fair.
(b) There is a cotton-picking contest.
(c) They are moving to their next destination.
(d) It is Christmas Day.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Janey's father take her at the beginning of Chapter 5?

2. Who is the doctor who Mrs. Romero recommends to Mrs. Larkin?

3. Who used to live in the house the Larkins are moving into?

4. Why does Janey want her father to take the job of trimming the trees?

5. Mr. Romero tells Mr. Larkin that a man has some _________________ trees that need to be trimmed.

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