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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. Who asks Amanda to come home in Part 1, Chapter 6?
(a) Rudy.
(b) Ruth.
(c) Carl.
(d) Mathilda.

2. What surrounds the school that Ruth attends?
(a) A corn field.
(b) A lake.
(c) A cotton field.
(d) Pastures.

3. Clement wants to build a house near ______________.
(a) Mathilda.
(b) Ruth.
(c) Imogene.
(d) Amanda.

4. What does Amanda realize about Imogene when visiting her?
(a) She has the flu.
(b) She has scarlet fever.
(c) She is beautiful.
(d) She has pneumonia.

5. What does Amanda teach Ruth to do in Part 2, Chapter 10?
(a) Walk.
(b) Climb a tree.
(c) Paddle.
(d) Talk.

Short Answer Questions

1. Mathilda is married to __________.

2. What does Ruth play while alone at school?

3. Whom does Amanda meet while helping to subdue Private Buckle?

4. Whom does Amanda want to buy out of their half of the farm?

5. What keeps Clement from straying from his marriage?

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss Carl's and Ruth's relationship when Carl returns home.

2. What do Ruth and Imogene discuss about their mothers?

3. What is recalled about Amanda when Mathilda is born?

4. What occurs when Clement prepares to go to Washington?

5. What happens on a hot July day in Part 2, Chapter 10?

6. What is Amanda's reaction to Ruth being at the island?

7. Discuss the dream Amanda has involving Mathilda.

8. Discuss the adjustment for Amanda, Carl, and Ruth to become a family.

9. What happens on the morning when Ruth cries for her mother?

10. What happens on March 27, 1919?

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