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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following words best describes what the main activities were which filled Christmas Day for Gertie?
(a) Arguing
(b) Laughing
(c) Playing
(d) Whining

2. Whom does Mr. Daly say uses the Constitution to defend their actions?
(a) Communists
(b) Unions
(c) Americans
(d) Socialists

3. Which word best describes how injured Clovis is when he is beaten?
(a) Critically
(b) Barely
(c) Mortally
(d) Seriously

4. How much does Mr. Anderson pay for the carving of the hen Gertie has done?
(a) $2.50
(b) $1.50
(c) $0.50
(d) $1

5. Which of the following bothers Gertie more and more every day?
(a) Telling lies
(b) Clovis's scars
(c) Labor relations
(d) Mr. Daly's preaching about the Catholics

6. What gift had Gertie taken to the Dalys to give to Maggie?
(a) Hand-carved bird
(b) Crucifix
(c) Block of cherry wood
(d) Head of an infant

7. What does Maggie want to teach Gertie in order for her to fix her wooden statue?
(a) How to use the stove better
(b) How to knit
(c) How to do the laundry
(d) Where to shop for bargains

8. What does Mrs. Daly tell Gertie that she thinks Clovis is doing when he is angry and throws the pan out into the snow?
(a) Venting his frustrations over his shift change
(b) Abusing Gertie
(c) Drinking
(d) Ruining her life

9. What conversation does Gertie overhear Whit, Clovis and some other factory workers having?
(a) About the agreement reached between the unions and managment
(b) About the death of a female worker
(c) About the new expected raises
(d) About the disbandment of the unions

10. What does Maggie leave to do?
(a) Become a mother
(b) Become a nun
(c) Become a casino worker
(d) Become a soldier

11. When Gertie quotes from the Bible about drinking, which is the main message?
(a) People drink to get away from their spouses
(b) People drink to hide their misery
(c) Drinking is good
(d) Drinking is wrong

12. What does Victor want Gertie to do for him?
(a) Carve a crucifix for his mother
(b) Watch he and Max's children
(c) Make him dinner
(d) Keep her kids far away from his kids and the Daly's kids

13. According to what Max tells Gertie, who controls Max's life and tells her how to live?
(a) No one, she controls her own life
(b) The Daly's
(c) Victor's mother
(d) Victor

14. Which child's conference at school went worst?
(a) Reuben's
(b) Whit's
(c) Cassie's
(d) Enoch's

15. What does Enoch say about the dolls which upsets and bothers Gertie?
(a) They are one of a kind
(b) They will not be made any longer and therefore are rare
(c) They are unique
(d) They are hand carved

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Clytie feel left out about with her friends from school?

2. Which of Gertie's children is involved in the fight with the Daly children which Gertie witnesses?

3. With what do the Meanwell and Daly children play?

4. What put Clovis in a good mood at the end of chapter 23?

5. Which of the following seems to be the most logical reason as to why Gertie would agree to accept money for chores when it would upset Clovis?

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