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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does Perilee say they will arrive at Hattie's new home?
(a) In about an hour.
(b) Several hours.
(c) Three days travel.
(d) By suppertime the next day.

2. What does Rooster Jim want to continue doing with Hattie that he did with her uncle?
(a) Hunting.
(b) Playing checkers.
(c) Playing chess.
(d) Reading classics.

3. What does Hattie find when she arrives home?
(a) Her cow is ill.
(b) Another note from an unknown person.
(c) A note from her best friend back in Virginia.
(d) A hay bale is smoldering.

4. How does Hattie get to Montana?
(a) Hitching rides as she can.
(b) A freight train.
(c) Horse and wagon.
(d) The Great Northern Railway.

5. Who meets Hattie at the door to the dance?
(a) Rooster Jim.
(b) Leafie.
(c) Traft.
(d) Perilee.

6. What month is coming up shortly?
(a) November.
(b) September.
(c) June.
(d) April.

7. What has Hattie's uncle Holt been doing with her letters?
(a) Giving them to Charlie to read.
(b) Passing them on to the local newspaper.
(c) Sending them on to Hattie's grandmother in Europe.
(d) Sending them on to Hattie's great-aunt in Maine.

8. What does Grace tell Hattie to do?
(a) To join the choir herself.
(b) Ask her friend to come the next Sunday.
(c) Appeal to Reverend Tweed.
(d) Be quiet.

9. Why do Chase and Mattie run past Hattie's house without stopping one day?
(a) They have good news for their parents.
(b) They are being chased by other boys.
(c) They have to get ten rods of fencing in that day.
(d) They are in a hurry because Perilee is giving birth.

10. Who is Chester?
(a) Hattie's uncle in Montana.
(b) Hattie's father's brother.
(c) The postmaster who is a good friend of Uncle Holt.
(d) The mayor who is a good friend of Uncle Holt.

11. What is one of Hattie's daily challenges?
(a) To milk the cow without injury or loss of milk.
(b) To set a couple fence posts.
(c) To not feel lonely.
(d) To finish the inside of her house.

12. About what does Leafie warn Hattie?
(a) That there is a group who is going to burn Mueller's home.
(b) That there is an ongoing investigation about her age as a homesteader.
(c) That there is a group who want to have the Mueller's homesteading claim denied.
(d) That Traft is in trouble.

13. What is Hattie's uncle Holt's actual relationship to Hattie?
(a) A first cousin.
(b) A close friend of Hattie's grandmother.
(c) A distant cousin.
(d) A close friend of Hattie's father.

14. What does Hattie find when she rides over to the Mueller homestead?
(a) The barn is on fire.
(b) Perilee is very ill.
(c) Mattie is missing.
(d) Their cow has been shot.

15. Who does Hattie write to tell of her move to Montana?
(a) Charlie.
(b) No one.
(c) A good friend from the last place she lived.
(d) Her elderly great aunt.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Hattie's newest challenge?

2. What is the response of some of the other ladies when Hattie recommends a Mueller?

3. What amuses Rooster Jim as he rides by as Hattie is plowing?

4. What does Hattie insist for the person(s) who brings Plug home

5. What does Perilee accept from Hattie?

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