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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. When do they estimate that Selling was born?
(a) 1819.
(b) 1820.
(c) 1815.
(d) 1825.

2. What time did Elias and Barta leave for the village in Chapter 8?
(a) 6.
(b) 5.
(c) 3.
(d) 4.

3. What flowers bloom on the slope where the peddlar stops his horses in Chapter 3?
(a) Barberton Daisys.
(b) Flame Lilies.
(c) Buttercups.
(d) Candelabras.

4. In Chapter 8, what does Elias use to make the shoes Barta borrowed fit her better?
(a) Wood chips.
(b) Grass.
(c) Rags.
(d) Aloe.

5. In Chapter 8, what do Elias and Barta eat before they go into the village?
(a) Sandwiches.
(b) Bread and lard.
(c) Jerky.
(d) Sweet potatoes and ash-bread.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who taught Fiela to read and write?

2. How many ostrich chicks did Fiela steal when she got Kicker?

3. In Chapter 6, when do the officials say they will bring Benjamin back home?

4. In Chapter 8, who does Elias remember came and lifted the sweet potatoes for them?

5. In Chapter 3, how much money does Fiela remember that she got for Kicker's feathers the August before?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Elias van Rooyen do for a living, and how does his work compare to the work other families on Barnard's Island do?

2. What questions does the magistrate ask Benjamin in Chapter 9?

3. In Chapter 6, why does Fiela want Tollie to stay in the house?

4. In Chapter 9, what happens when Barta comes to see Benjamin?

5. What was Selling's sentence when he was convicted of murder, and how did he get free?

6. How did Fiela get a male ostrich?

7. How is Pollie settling in at Fiela's?

8. Who is Benjamin, and where does he and his family live?

9. Why was Selling convicted of murder when Fiela was pregnant with Emma?

10. In Chapter 7, how is the road described on page 71?

(see the answer keys)

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