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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Hattie write for her article in Honyocker's Homily?
(a) That the Patriotic league is sponsering the Mueller family.
(b) That Plug has several different jobs.
(c) That she is able to plant seeds.
(d) A homily about patchwork quilts.

4. Why does Hattie ask Traft to dance?
(a) To get him away from the Muellers.
(b) She likes him.
(c) To ask him a personal question.
(d) To defuse a tense situation.

5. What is the new visitor's attitude towards Hattie?
(a) Anger.
(b) Hostility.
(c) Gratitude.
(d) Humor.

6. At what does Hattie marvel?
(a) The orneriness of Violet.
(b) The patience of Plug.
(c) Karl and Perilee's generosity.
(d) The huge Montana sky.

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

8. How far is Hattie's homestead from Vida?
(a) Six miles.
(b) Thirteen miles.
(c) About one mile.
(d) Three miles.

9. Who comes from the barn as Hattie returns from the fields?
(a) Mattie.
(b) Charlie.
(c) Leafie Purvis.
(d) Rooster Jim.

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

11. What does Hattie give Perilee in thanks?
(a) A bag of sugar.
(b) A bag of coffee.
(c) A picture.
(d) A book of poems.

12. What amuses Rooster Jim as he rides by as Hattie is plowing?
(a) The hat she has put on plug.
(b) Her plowing methods.
(c) Her plowing outfit.
(d) The way she has harnessed Violet.

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

14. Who rides up with a cow?
(a) Rooster Jim.
(b) No one.
(c) A group of hostile men.
(d) Perilee's oldest child.

15. How old does Hattie feel she'll be before she is finished plowing?
(a) 25.
(b) 100.
(c) 90.
(d) 38.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the note on Hattie's table say when she returns home?

2. Who is Perilee Johnson Mueller?

3. How does Traft Martin help Hattie?

4. For what newspaper does Hattie write articles about her life in Montana?

5. What does Perilee leave with Hattie before they go on to their own place?

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