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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 do more farmers start growing sugar beets?
(a) A sugar beet processing plant is built nearby.
(b) The price of sugar beets rises.
(c) The seeds are being given away for free.
(d) Brumbaugh tells other farmers about the beets.

2. Why does Brumbaugh encourage Tranquilino Marquez to return to Mexico?
(a) To bring his family back.
(b) To be a witness in a court case.
(c) To get a college degree.
(d) To find better work.

3. How does Maude kill Soren Sorenson?
(a) With a fake pistol.
(b) With a brick.
(c) With a sword.
(d) With a gun.

4. Why does Jim agree to avenge Coker's death?
(a) Because he will be paid.
(b) Because Coker promised to do anything for Jim.
(c) Because he wants Coker's land.
(d) Because Coker was his brother-in-law.

5. Where is the scientist from that Levi calls in Chapter 9?
(a) Princeton.
(b) Harvard.
(c) Yale.
(d) Columbia.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are people slaughtering buffalo in Chapter 9?

2. What does Dumire assume about Soren Sorenson when he hears he is missing?

3. What small town is named Wendell after Mervin Wendell's death?

4. Why do Earl Grebe and Magnes Volkema visit Centennial?

5. What causes farming problems in the early 1920s?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to Clemma in Saint Louis?

2. Why does Alex Dumire come to Centennial?

3. How is Levi's death revealed in Chapter 11?

4. How do sugar beets cause problems for the people of Centennial?

5. What happens to Jim after he asks Clemma to marry him?

6. What happens when Buckford brings his daughter to Colorado for the first time?

7. Why doesn't Finlay Perkin turn Seccumbe in?

8. What happens when Mauve Wendell can not scam Soren Sorenson?

9. In Chapter 12, how does Charlotte interfere with Skimmerhorn's career?

10. How does Brumbaugh help Tranquilino in Chapter 12?

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