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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Perilee promise that she is unable to keep?
(a) That the quilt will be done before the baby is born.
(b) That Karl will plant Hattie's forty acres required by the claims office.
(c) That Violet will be well cared for when Hattie goes to Seattle.
(d) That Hattie can have Violet back as soon as Karl returns with a new cow.

2. Why is Hattie's crop mostly cattle feed?
(a) It is the maize type of corn.
(b) Because of the type of seed she was able to afford.
(c) Hailstones ruin it.
(d) There is a big call for cattle feed.

3. Who is Charlotte?
(a) The new baby.
(b) Traft Martin's new wife.
(c) Leafie's apprentice.
(d) Rooster Jim's new wife.

4. What does Traft ask Hattie?
(a) To make a deal with him about her ranch.
(b) To forgive him for his belonging to the Defense League.
(c) To marry him.
(d) To go with him to another dance.

5. What does Hattie insist is hers to do when she is talking with Trask?
(a) Decide when to harvest.
(b) Decide how to run the fencing.
(c) Decide what to plant.
(d) Making mistakes.

6. What causes Hattie to become angry again at Traft?
(a) He makes mean remarks about "Huns."
(b) He says Ebgard deserved what he got.
(c) He makes mean remarks about the Muellers.
(d) He asks to buy her land again.

7. Why has Hattie been taking her mattress outside at night at home?
(a) To replace the floor boards that are rotten.
(b) To try to get rid of the bedbugs.
(c) To escape the heat inside.
(d) To get rid of some mice in the mattress.

8. What does the fifteen starts in Charlie's last letter indicate?
(a) Charlie has fifteen days left in his enlistment.
(b) Charlie lost fifteen more friends.
(c) Hattie is not sure what that means.
(d) Charlie will be coming home on the 15th of September.

9. What does Traft ask Hattie concerning Charlie?
(a) If she is just writing him to support the troops.
(b) If he is her brother.
(c) Nothing.
(d) If she is waiting for him.

10. Why does Hattie send Karl and Chase to her house?
(a) To get more flaxseed.
(b) To feed her animals.
(c) To keep them away from the flu germs.
(d) To get more sagebrush.

11. Of what are the papers full?
(a) Reports of the huge losses the Americans were suffering in the war.
(b) Reports of the wounded and killed.
(c) Reports of the great victories Americans were having.
(d) Reports of people accused of sedition.

12. Who does Hattie encounter after talking to Mr. Nefzger?
(a) Mattie.
(b) Karl.
(c) Traft.
(d) Perilee.

13. What does Hattie do at the Mueller's while waiting for Leafie?
(a) Reads up on childbirthing from the home nursing manual.
(b) Read the Bible to Perilee for distraction.
(c) Makes up a bed for the forthcoming infant.
(d) Builds a fire in the stove.

14. What happens when Elmer steps in a prairie dog hole?
(a) He breaks his ankle.
(b) He cries in frustration
(c) He is bitten by a prairie dog.
(d) He breaks his arm.

15. Why does Traft help Hattie into the house?
(a) He is a gentleman.
(b) She faints from the heat.
(c) She trips and sprains her arm.
(d) She trips and sprains her ankle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are shocks?

2. Who is the "doctor" in the area?

3. Who dies in Hattie's arms?

4. What does Hattie get to do during the game the picnic participants play?

5. What is the situation like when Hattie goes over to the Mueller house?

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