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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. What is the name of Kjersti's cow?
(a) Rosie.
(b) Patches.
(c) Honey.
(d) Brindlesides.

2. Where is the Hansa family headed?
(a) Minnesota.
(b) California.
(c) Dakota Territory.
(d) Utah Territory.

3. Who is Per Hansa?
(a) The main female character of the book.
(b) The main family's oldest child.
(c) The main male character of the book.
(d) A shopkeeper who helps the family with supplies.

4. Who in Per Hansa's family believes the family should travel back east for the winter?
(a) Per Hansa.
(b) Beret.
(c) Ola.
(d) Store-Hans.

5. What place does Per Hansa hope to find when he leaves the camp in the middle of the night?
(a) An Indian village.
(b) Split Rock Creek.
(c) The city of Jackson.
(d) The Dakota Territory.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Per Hansa's purpose for buying the twine and knitting a net?

2. What animal does Tonseten actually manage to hunt and kill using his crowbar?

3. What is the date on which Per Hansa receives a deed to the property he has claimed?

4. Where do the settlers have to go to make their claim to the land official?

5. What does Per Hansa do after he finds the stakes in the ground?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to Hans Olsa in the final chapter of the book?

2. How does Per Hansa die? In what position is he found?

3. Who has a problem with Per Hansa's house? Why? What does this character do when Per Hansa ignores his advice?

4. What happens to the rest of the party that the Hansa family was traveling with?

5. What business proposition does Torkel Tallaksen present to Per Hansa? What is Per Hansa's response?

6. In Book 1, Chapter 4, Per Hansa is surveying his property and finds wooden stakes in the ground. Where does Per find the stakes, what do they mean, and how does he react to this discovery?

7. In Book 1, Chapter 5, a group of settlers comes upon the Spring Creek settlement and, as Per Hansa and the other men are gone, it is left to Tonseten to greet them. What is their nationality? What is Tonseten's reaction to them and why?

8. From the exchange between Tonseten and Hans Olsa in the beginning of Book 1, Chapter 2, what can you gather is their opinion of Per Hansa?

9. Describe the Hansa family's caravan.

10. In Book 1, Chapter 6, we get a glimpse into the mind of Beret Hansa. Why does Beret consider her life at the settlement as a punishment from God?

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