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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 the minister is real.
(b) If he can be baptized.
(c) If he can go shoot some ducks.
(d) If Beret has killed Permand.

2. When does the snow first fall on the settlement at Spring Creek?
(a) Late October.
(b) Early October.
(c) Late November.
(d) Early January.

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

4. Why do Per Hansa and his sons sift through the seed before they plant them?
(a) To remove any rocks that may have mixed in.
(b) To let some air into the seed bags.
(c) To make sure they are all the same kind.
(d) To remove any bad seeds.

5. In which direction is Per looking when he dies?
(a) East.
(b) South.
(c) West.
(d) North.

6. Who protests Peder Seier being baptized by the minister?
(a) Hans Olsa.
(b) Beret.
(c) Per Hansa.
(d) Kjersti.

7. What does Sorine do when Hans Olsa returns home during the snowstorm?
(a) Puts him in the bathtub.
(b) Scolds him for staying out late.
(c) Bundles him off to bed.
(d) Gets him some soup.

8. In what years does the winter snow fall from mid-October to mid-April?
(a) 1800-1801.
(b) 1864-1864.
(c) 1880-1881.
(d) 1980-1981.

9. What are the clouds becoming to Beret as she stares into them?
(a) A pony.
(b) Cotton balls.
(c) A scene of her homeland.
(d) The face of a monster.

10. Why does Hans Olsa ultimately decide to return home during the night in the snowstorm in Book 2, Chapter 4?
(a) Sorine will worry if he doesn't return home.
(b) Sorine is making a special meal.
(c) His bed is more comfortable than the hay.
(d) He'd rather lose his life outside than with his cattle.

11. What name does Per Hansa refuse to let Beret be known by?
(a) Skarvholmen.
(b) Stavanger.
(c) Hedmark.
(d) Harstad.

12. What does Per Hansa think his wife's strange behavior is caused by?
(a) Her gender.
(b) Fever.
(c) Her pregnancy.
(d) Food poisoning.

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

14. How does Per Hansa react to Beret's preaching?
(a) He hangs on her every word.
(b) He does not take it seriously.
(c) He is very proud of her.
(d) He yells at her.

15. Where do the men go to get more wood in Book 2, Chapter 1?
(a) Sioux Falls.
(b) Sioux River.
(c) Worthington.
(d) Filmore County.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Torkel Tallaksen want to build?

2. What do the neighbors liken the whitewashed walls of his house to?

3. What does Henry Solum offer to Per Hansa for the winter?

4. Who teaches Per Hansa how to fish?

5. What does Beret say living in a sod house does?

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