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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. How many acres can a homesteader claim?
(a) 200.
(b) 260.
(c) 160.
(d) 300.

2. What does Anna Ramsay ask Angus to bring her?
(a) Reading primers.
(b) Chalk.
(c) Montana geography books.
(d) Buckets.

3. What is the name of the ship that Rob and Angus take to America?
(a) James Watt.
(b) Brig Galate.
(c) Lady Egidia.
(d) Barque Jane.

4. How much money did Lucas send to his family every Christmas?
(a) $75.
(b) $100.
(c) $50.
(d) $150.

5. Whose portraits hang in the South Fork school?
(a) Washington and Jefferson.
(b) Lincoln and Harrison.
(c) Washington and Lincoln.
(d) Adams and Jefferson.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what month does Archie Findlater lose half his band of sheep to a blizzard?

2. What is the name of the driver of the freight wagon that takes Angus and Rob to Gros Ventre?

3. When Angus left Scotland, how long had it been since Alexander McCaskill helped to build a lighthouse?

4. What type of meat do Rob and Angus eat during the winter of 1890-91?

5. How many sheep do Rob and Lucas have by the fall of 1896?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why isn't Angus able to sleep on water?

2. Why is a vendor selling limes to passengers on Rob's and Angus's ship?

3. What is some of the first work that Rob and Angus get done on their homesteads?

4. What family does Rob leave behind in Nethermuir?

5. How did Lucas lose his hands?

6. Why do Ninian, Donald, Archie, and Willy come to see Angus one evening?

7. What does Angus tell about his family?

8. Why do the bumboats dock against the steamship Rob and Angus are taking to America?

9. What progress does Angus describe that occurs in 1891?

10. Why in 1893, does the South Fork need a school teacher when the school year is close to beginning?

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