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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Perilee leave with Hattie before they go on to their own place?
(a) Advice and some dried vegetables.
(b) Advice and dried meat.
(c) A dog.
(d) Advice, stew and strudel.

2. Who picks up Hattie for the dance?
(a) No one; she goes alone.
(b) Karl and Perilee Mueller.
(c) Traft Martin.
(d) Rooster Jim.

3. What does Hattie do when she notices the situation with the Mueller children?
(a) Hoists the children up into a tree.
(b) Pushes the children into the creek.
(c) Takes off her petticoat, and waves it to stop the animals.
(d) Kills the rattler.

4. When does Hattie's uncle Holt take her into his home?
(a) When Hattie is 7.
(b) When Hattie is 2.
(c) When Hattie is 13.
(d) When Hattie first becomes an orphan.

5. What does Perilee accept from Hattie?
(a) A bag of wool.
(b) A rocker.
(c) A butter churn.
(d) A spinning wheel.

6. What do Perilee and the children do with Hattie on Sunday?
(a) Go to church.
(b) Have a picnic.
(c) Gather mushrooms.
(d) Paint pictures.

7. For what newspaper does Hattie write articles about her life in Montana?
(a) Arlington News.
(b) Montana Liberty.
(c) Vida Life.
(d) Montana Monthly News.

8. What is Hattie's newest challenge?
(a) Fence building.
(b) Keeping the garden from being overrun with jack rabbits.
(c) Keeping the coyotes away from the chickens.
(d) Finding a bull to breed with Violet.

9. How does Traft Martin help Hattie?
(a) Drawing water for the garden.
(b) Picking rocks out of the field.
(c) Stapling wire to fence posts.
(d) Running the plow.

10. What are the Mueller children sent out to gather?
(a) Potatoes.
(b) Berries.
(c) Greens.
(d) Wild flowers.

11. What does Rooster Jim suggest to Hattie?
(a) That she get herself a wide-brimmed hat.
(b) That Violet will stop giving milk if she is made to work plowing.
(c) That she plow in straight lines.
(d) That Plug might appreciate an umbrella, too.

12. Who arrives the next morning at Hattie's house?
(a) Rooster Jim.
(b) Perilee's oldest son.
(c) Perilee.
(d) Karl.

13. Who is Plug?
(a) The horse on Hattie's uncle's ranch in Montana.
(b) The tom cat that always fights with Mr. Whiskers.
(c) A young boy who Hattie babysits occasionally.
(d) A dog who lives next door to Hattie.

14. What does Mr. Saboe announce at dinner?
(a) The homesteading act has been revised.
(b) The Muellers will no longer be welcome in Vida.
(c) It is time to buy liberty bonds.
(d) Traft is leaving the area.

15. What does Hattie tie to the ring on the metal eye on the cabin?
(a) A lantern.
(b) A dead snake.
(c) A flag.
(d) A rope.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Aunt Ivy's perspective on Hattie's staying with them?

2. Why does Hattie go over to talk to Perilee?

3. Where does Traft offer to take Hattie?

4. Who does Hattie write to tell of her move to Montana?

5. How does Hattie write about her life in the letters she writes?

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