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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. What does Mervin Wendell fall ill from in Chapter 13?
(a) Yellow fever.
(b) Small pox.
(c) Pneumonia.
(d) The flu.

2. Where does Jim find Clemma in Chapter 10?
(a) Cleveland.
(b) Madison.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Detroit.

3. Why does Clemma turn down Jim Lloyd's offer of marriage?
(a) She wants to go to Saint Loius.
(b) She is too young.
(c) She is seeing someone else.
(d) He is too old.

4. What other name are the Pettis boys known as?
(a) Gun brothers.
(b) Two guns in tow.
(c) Gun boys.
(d) Guns for hire.

5. Why does Amos Calendar collect bones in Chapter 9?
(a) To collect.
(b) To bury.
(c) To sell.
(d) To inspect.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Maude kill Soren Sorenson?

2. Why does Amos Calender agree to lead a mass slaughter of buffalo in Chapter 9?

3. Who does Finlay Perkin threaten to turn Seccumbe into in Chapter 10?

4. What happens to the help farmers bring in from other countries?

5. How do the Wendells buy land in Chapter 11?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens as soon as the Wendells arrive in Centennial?

2. Why does Alex Dumire come to Centennial?

3. What happens when farmers buy tracts of land from Levi?

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

5. What happens of Soren Sorenson's body?

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

7. What is the appeal behind dry farming?

8. How does Charlotte stop Clemma from interfering with her marriage to Jim?

9. How does Mervin try to tease Phillip in Chapter 12?

10. What happens to Clemma in Saint Louis?

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