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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Mr. Mybug?
(a) A man in the Brethren congregation.
(b) A man Flora encounters at the tea shop.
(c) Flora's former teacher.
(d) Flora's father's best friend.

2. Why does Adam have to practice driving the cart six times?
(a) So the cart can be re-fitted for staves.
(b) So he is prepared to drive it to the train station.
(c) So the cart wheels can be trued.
(d) So the horses can get exercise.

3. Who is Adam supposed to meet at the train station?
(a) Judith Starkadder.
(b) The Constable.
(c) Flora Poste.
(d) No one.

4. What does Flora decide to buy Adam next time she is in Howling?
(a) Some brillo pads.
(b) A sponge.
(c) A dish mop.
(d) A bottle of liquid soap.

5. Who wakes Flora in the morning with their arguing?
(a) Adam and Judith.
(b) Adam and Reuben.
(c) Judith and the Matriarch.
(d) Judith and Elfine.

6. What does Miriam think of the idea of birth control?
(a) It's a splendid idea.
(b) It is contrary to nature.
(c) She doesn't understand the technique.
(d) It couldn't work.

7. Upon what does Flora give Miriam a lecture?
(a) Sex out of wedlock.
(b) How to avoid becoming pregnant.
(c) Consorting with the owners of the farm.
(d) Breastfeeding.

8. What happens to Miriam?
(a) She cuts her arm rather badly.
(b) She marries her second cousin.
(c) She goes into labor.
(d) She falls off the hayloft.

9. How does Seth enter the room?
(a) Quietly.
(b) Limping.
(c) Swaggering.
(d) Stumbling.

10. Who is waiting at the train station when Mary and Flora arrive?
(a) Ada.
(b) Joseph.
(c) Charles.
(d) Reuben.

11. About what are they arguing?
(a) The cow losing a leg.
(b) Breakfast being late.
(c) The horse being lame.
(d) Breakfast being burned.

12. With whom is Flora going to stay temporarily?
(a) Her uncle Astor.
(b) The family with whom she just ended her job as governess.
(c) Mary Smiling, a friend.
(d) A boarding house for unwed mothers.

13. What does Mary assume Flora will do?
(a) Go to college.
(b) Get a job and her own flat.
(c) Move to the United States.
(d) Get married.

14. What does Seth like to do in the evenings?
(a) Meet a girl behind the haystack.
(b) Go to the talkies.
(c) Smoke his pipe on the porch.
(d) Sleep.

15. The story begins two weeks after what event?
(a) The funerals of Flora's parents.
(b) The death of Flora's young husband.
(c) Flora's graduation from governess school.
(d) The birth of Flora's younger brother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Flora doing when Adam comes in?

2. What does Mr. Mybug wish to prove?

3. By what name does Flora know old Mrs. Starkadder?

4. When Flora awakes later again, what does she decide?

5. What does Flora throw out of the cart when she climbs onto the cart?

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