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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whom does Dencey visit almost every day?
(a) Aunt Margaret.
(b) Aunt Lovesta.
(c) Aunt Sara.
(d) Aunt Ellen.

2. Why does Dencey ultimately decide to take Stephen's coat?
(a) Sammie doesn't have any coats.
(b) To worry her mother.
(c) To trick Injun Jill.
(d) To teach Stephen a lesson.

3. Which of the following is NOT something that tugs at Dencey's loneliness while in her room?
(a) The family playing outside.
(b) A pie eating contest.
(c) The family's conversations.
(d) Lydia's baking popovers.

4. What promise does Dencey say she cannot keep?
(a) To walk to school with Rosie.
(b) Never to see Sammie again.
(c) To go to choir practice.
(d) To not sing in the house.

5. What new article of clothing does Stephen receive?
(a) Coat.
(b) Gloves.
(c) Boots.
(d) Hat.

6. What happens to Sammie after he recovers?
(a) He returns to Injun Jill's house.
(b) He goes to the orphanage.
(c) He stays with the Coffyns.
(d) He leaves on a whaling ship.

7. What annual event occurs in Chapter 42?
(a) The annual husking.
(b) Apple picking weekend.
(c) Baling hay.
(d) Autumn harvest.

8. Why is Dencey so sad on the day of Nantucket's main event?
(a) Her prize sheep will be entered into the contest.
(b) She won't get any fresh berries.
(c) Her father has not answered her letter.
(d) She is being punished and not allowed to go.

9. What is Injun Jill's quest?
(a) To find and steal Sammie's book.
(b) To find her brother's killer.
(c) To find who raided the meat from her storehouse.
(d) To find who set her horses free.

10. What is Sammie's demeanor when Dencey shows him the chart?
(a) Appreciative.
(b) Combative.
(c) Surprised.
(d) Grateful.

11. Who was Injun Jill's boyfriend?
(a) Bill.
(b) Sam.
(c) Ezra.
(d) Elias.

12. Which of the following is something Aunt Lovesta does NOT tell Dencey that Dencey can do?
(a) Make pies when her mother is out.
(b) Take Sammie to Aunt Lovesta's.
(c) Be kind to Sammie.
(d) Take food to Sammie.

13. How many words does Sammie learn in his first day of lessons?
(a) 4.
(b) 10.
(c) 12.
(d) 7.

14. How many coats does Stephen have?
(a) Three.
(b) Two.
(c) Zero.
(d) One.

15. What is the only thing that Sammie will help Dencey do now?
(a) Make apple butter.
(b) Shovel snow.
(c) Her ciphers.
(d) Chop firewood.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sammie note as he recuperates in the Coffyn house?

2. Why is the person who fought with Sammie mad?

3. What are Dencey's meals when she is confined to her room for punishment?

4. What does The Committee on Sufferings remove from the Coffyn house?

5. Lovesta is banned from preaching for how many years?

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