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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Store-Hans ask Per after the minister's first service?
(a) If he can go shoot some ducks.
(b) If the minister is real.
(c) If Beret has killed Permand.
(d) If he can be baptized.

2. What does Beret call the blizzards?
(a) Coldness.
(b) Monster.
(c) Nightmares.
(d) Blinding.

3. What do the Solum boys build to help them return East?
(a) A wagon.
(b) A sleigh.
(c) A boat.
(d) A car.

4. Tonseten says that the settlers should take names that reflect what?
(a) Their new settlement.
(b) Their occupations.
(c) Their personalities.
(d) Their Norwegian heritage.

5. Where does Henry Solum conduct his school?
(a) Henry Solum does not teach school.
(b) From Per Hansa's house always.
(c) The location rotates among the houses.
(d) From his brother Sam's house.

6. How much can Per Hansa buy furs for at the Indian settlement that sells them?
(a) Ten cents.
(b) Twenty cents.
(c) Five cents.
(d) One dollar.

7. What is the name of the Indian settlement where Per Hansa travels to buy furs?
(a) Strasbourg.
(b) Orleans.
(c) Gustaveau.
(d) Flandreau.

8. What does the minister think about Peder Seier's name?
(a) It is a bad name.
(b) It is a silly name.
(c) It is a glorious name.
(d) It is a blasphemous name.

9. What does the minister say his communion Sunday sermon teaches?
(a) The blessings of hard work.
(b) The strength of marriage.
(c) The evil of pride.
(d) The love of a mother.

10. Who asks Tonseten to marry a couple for which he still feels guilt over marrying?
(a) Torkel Tallaksen.
(b) Per Hansa.
(c) Rolf Hansen.
(d) Halvor Hagg.

11. Where do they find Store-Hans after the minister's first service?
(a) At Hans Olsa's.
(b) The Indian grave mound.
(c) At the swamp where the ducks live.
(d) Inside the barn.

12. Which of the following best describes Beret in the final chapter?
(a) Near death.
(b) Moderately crazy.
(c) Intensely pious.
(d) Totally insane.

13. A couple arrives at Spring Creek and the woman is tied up in the wagon. What has happened to them?
(a) Their youngest child has died.
(b) The man has kidnapped the woman.
(c) The woman is a thief being transported to jail.
(d) The woman has tried to kill the man.

14. What are the names of the couple that Tonseten married?
(a) Mort Hanson and Julie.
(b) Kristian Peterson and Jonie.
(c) Johannes Mostad and Josie.
(d) Hans Johan and Jennie.

15. What does Beret prepare for her husband before he sets off on his journey?
(a) Porridge.
(b) Stew.
(c) Beef jerky.
(d) Hot coffee.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much money does Per make buying and selling furs the first year?

2. Whom is the minister's communion Sunday service sermon about?

3. Whose house does Per Hansa come upon after he is lost in the blizzard with his oxen?

4. What does Sorine do when Hans Olsa returns home during the snowstorm?

5. What does Per Hansa think his wife's strange behavior is caused by?

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