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

2. For what was Gertie's mother thankful to Gertie?
(a) Helping to cook the meal for the preacher
(b) Helping her father in the workshop
(c) Visiting on Sundays
(d) Hard work on the farm as a girl

3. How does Gertie travel at the beginning of chapter one?
(a) Truck
(b) Car
(c) Mule
(d) Donkey

4. Where does Clytie think Clovis has gone?
(a) Left home
(b) To war
(c) To work in a factory
(d) Just to get his physical

5. How much does Gertie offer to pay the officer for the ride?
(a) Two dollars
(b) One dollar
(c) Ten dollars
(d) Five dollars

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Gertie find the time to do most of her carving?

2. What does Gertie hope to buy one day?

3. As it rains, for what is Gertie grateful about the new house?

4. At the beginning of chapter nine, what is Gertie doing as she reflects on how long it has been since Henley left and then was killed?

5. Where does Gertie's mother say Henley is?

Short Essay Questions

1. What new information is learned about Max's relationship with her husband?

2. At the beginning of chapter ten, Gertie awakens from a dream about what?

3. Why is Clytie crying at the beginning of chapter three?

4. Gertie meets a black woman on the train. What does this woman tell Gertie which surprises Gertie?

5. Who else, besides Amos, has the doctor treated that Gertie knows?

6. How does the author let the reader know that the car is something the townspeople fear?

7. While Gertie is digging for potatoes, what good news does she receive?

8. What does Gertie think about the idea that Clovis would be working in one of the factories?

9. Why does the boy that Gertie and Cassie meet on the way to school tell Gertie she should not tell lies?

10. What happens right before Clovis leaves for his physical?

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