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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Gertie enjoy imagining?
(a) Her life at Tipton Place
(b) Henley still being alive
(c) Life for Clovis once he is in the Army
(d) Life after her children are grown

2. Where does Clovis want to take the children to go visiting?
(a) The neighbor's home
(b) To visit Amos in the clinic
(c) Clovis' parents
(d) Gertie's parents

3. How long has Clovis been gone at the beginning of chapter six?
(a) One year
(b) One week
(c) One day
(d) One month

4. Which of the following animals does Gertie carve in Detroit?
(a) Dog
(b) Cat
(c) Octopus
(d) Hen

5. Who does Gertie's mother say leads Henley into heathenism?
(a) Gertie's father
(b) Gertie
(c) No one
(d) Clovis

6. How was Gertie's brother killed?
(a) Murder
(b) Suicide
(c) War
(d) Disease

7. What does Gertie have to help the children get into for their first day of school?
(a) Snowsuits
(b) Uniforms
(c) Taxi cab
(d) Bookbags

8. Why does Gertie vomit?
(a) Did not want to go to Detroit
(b) Nerves from traveling with the children
(c) Pregnancy
(d) The unfamiliar feeling, sights and smells of the train

9. What is the family rule regarding Sundays?
(a) No hunting
(b) Always go to church
(c) Always stay together
(d) Never visit on this day

10. Where does this story begin?
(a) Tennessee
(b) Illinois
(c) Kentucky
(d) Texas

11. What does Henley leave to Gertie in his will?
(a) Nothing
(b) His favorite pocket knife
(c) His copy of the Bible
(d) All his money

12. As it rains, for what is Gertie grateful about the new house?
(a) That she moved before the rain started
(b) That Clovis is not there
(c) That the windows are solid
(d) That the children are safe

13. What derogatory term do the people in the train station call Gertie?
(a) Stupid
(b) Blockhead
(c) Thickheaded
(d) Hillbilly

14. Which word does Gertie use to describe the type of carving Gertie does not do?
(a) Frivolous
(b) Impersonal
(c) Practical
(d) Necessary

15. Which of the following characters is not a neighbor of Gertie's in Detroit?
(a) Sophronie
(b) Maggie
(c) Max
(d) Megan

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gertie carve for Cassie on the walk to her parent's house?

2. Who tells Gertie that she cannot whip them as she threatened?

3. Which word best describes the officer's feelings for Gertie before she preformed the medical procedure on Amos?

4. From what type of wood does she want to use to carve the man?

5. On what topic does Mrs. Bales' argue with more than one person about?

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