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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. Why does Sammie feel compelled to leave Dicky Dick's?
(a) He needs to get to bed.
(b) He still has chores to do at home.
(c) The coarse language and jokes offend him.
(d) He wants to talk to Dencey.

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

3. What does Lydia confront Dencey about in Chapter 23?
(a) Not doing all her schoolwork.
(b) Meeting with Sammie at Brown's barn.
(c) Leaving school early the past week.
(d) Why she stole Stephen's coat.

4. What is the prize for the winner of the corn husking contest?
(a) He could eat his fill of homemade pies.
(b) He got a week's worth of dinners.
(c) He could kiss the prettiest girl.
(d) He got a new axe.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Sammie get a job?

2. Why is Lydia unable to get Sammie admitted to the school in #119?

3. How does Sammie try to cover up his uneasiness about being with Dencey?

4. Why does Sammie shuck corn at lightning speed?

5. Lydia is glad to know that Dencey and Sammie were not meeting in Brown's barn for _______________.

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Dencey and Sammie decide to do after Injun Jill confronts Sammie about learning to read?

2. What is the basis of the silent war between Sammie and Injun Jill?

3. What does Lovesta tell Dencey about repentance and what does Dencey plan to do regarding Sammie?

4. What does Sammie grow to like about being in the Coffyn house, and what does Sammie realize that he has always craved for his life?

5. How does Sammie's behavior change once he passes up the chance to kiss Dencey at the corn husking contest?

6. What has happened to Lovesta after her years of punishment?

7. What is the state of Dencey and Sammie's relationship in Chapter 28?

8. What is Lovesta's punishment by the Committee for Sufferings for not allowing them to take Lydia's crimson rug from her home?

9. What is Dencey's punishment for not refusing to see Sammie again?

10. What does Dicky Dick tell Sammie about Injun Jill being his mother, and why does Sammie feel compelled not to stay too long?

(see the answer keys)

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