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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. Why does Janey want her father to take the job of trimming the trees?
(a) They can stay longer.
(b) He likes to work outside.
(c) They need the money.
(d) They need wood for the cook stove.

2. What is the teacher's name?
(a) Miss Albers.
(b) Miss Peterson.
(c) Miss Meyers.
(d) Miss Robertson.

3. What do the Larkins buy with Mr. Larkin's prize money?
(a) New tires.
(b) Dishes.
(c) A bicycle.
(d) TV.

4. Why does Bounce come to the Larkin house one night?
(a) To collect rent.
(b) To pay Mr. Larkin.
(c) To get wood.
(d) To evict the Larkins.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The Larkins once lived _____________________.

2. What does the teacher ask Janey about the horned toad?

3. What is Bounce Reyburn carrying when Janey sees him approach?

4. What does the Larkin family have all they want of on the farm?

5. Where does Janey's father work?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Janey have so much anxiety about the cotton picking contest?

2. Describe the events of the Larkins moving into the place recently vacated by Bounce?

3. What does the large pile of firewood at the house signify for Janey?

4. What does Janey offer to Bounce as rent payment so that he will leave the house?

5. What does Janey note about the differences in her parents and she relates to each of them?

6. What is the purpose of Miss Peterson's visit to the Larkin house?

7. What offer does Mr. Anderson make to Mr. Larkin?

8. What is Janey's frame of mind as she sits watching the ducks on the water?

9. What is Janey's reasoning for gauging the teacher by how the teacher reacts to the horned toad?

10. Explain how Janey knows that she is really home in the new house with the new furniture.

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