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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 does Per Hansa do after he finds the stakes in the ground?
(a) He immediately tells Hans Olsa about them.
(b) He goes to inquire about them in town.
(c) He removes them and hides them.
(d) He leaves them where he finds them.

2. Why does Per Hans walk so far ahead of the caravan?
(a) He doesn't like his family.
(b) He has to flatten the grass so the caravan can pass.
(c) He is lost and doesn't want to tell his wife.
(d) He has a lot of energy to burn off.

3. What does Per Hansa ask the Indians for?
(a) Horses.
(b) Tobacco.
(c) Food.
(d) Whiskey.

4. Where do the boys tell Per Hansa that the red welts on their bodies came from?
(a) They fell off the roof.
(b) They were fighting.
(c) Beret struck them.
(d) They got into poison ivy.

5. Who helps Per Hansa clean the sick Indian's injury?
(a) Beret.
(b) Store-Hans.
(c) Kjersti.
(d) Ole.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Book 1, Chapter 1, what is the family doing?

2. What does Beret attack her boys with?

3. Where does Beret Hansa remember the family landed when they crossed the ocean from Norway?

4. How much does the Tronder woman charge Per Hansa for borrowing her bull for a year?

5. What is Tonseten's first name?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the minister's response to Per after he tells the minister his concerns about Beret?

2. Why does Beret agree with Per Hansa's plans for the house? Does she explain this reasoning to her husband? Why or why not?

3. What is the story of the man and woman who come to Spring Creek with the woman tied up in the wagon?

4. What does the woman who has been tied in the back of the wagon do while she is at Per Hansa's house?

5. Why does Per Hansa go to the Indian camp in Book 1, Chapter 3? What does he discover once he gets there?

6. Describe Per Hansa's plan for his house.

7. Describe what is happening when the locusts come to the settlement. What is the reaction of the settlers?

8. Why does Beret begin packing up the family's possessions in a trunk while Per Hansa is away at town in Book 1, Chapter 5?

9. How do the men convince the Solum boys to stay in Spring Creek for the winter?

10. Why are the new people that come upon the Spring Creek settlement in Book 1, Chapter 5 reluctant to stay there? What is Tonseten's response?

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