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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Hattie manage to do despite her fears?
(a) Keep Mattie from getting hysterical.
(b) Milk the cow for milk for the new baby.
(c) Tie off and cut the cord and clean up Charlotta.
(d) Deliver twins.

3. Why must Karl stay home?
(a) Government agents are looking for him.
(b) To plant an additional forty acres.
(c) To protect the livestock.
(d) Perilee is close to giving birth.

4. What does Hattie's next installment to the newspaper describe?
(a) The first brood of chickens.
(b) Getting a sow and young pigs.
(c) Threshing flax.
(d) The Independence Day Parade.

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

6. What does Hattie think about in relation to Elmer's situation?
(a) A sanctimonious letter Hattie once wrote.
(b) How she would be willing to be drafted were she a man.
(c) How she has protested the war from the beginning.
(d) How she would not want her husband to register.

7. What does Traft want to tell Hattie when she finds him waiting for her?
(a) He has found out who set the fires that killed Mueller's cow.
(b) His side of the story about the night of the fires.
(c) He knows she cannot make her claim.
(d) He will help her make good on her claim.

8. What are shocks?
(a) An unrolled hay bale.
(b) Bundles of wheat.
(c) An oblong hay bale.
(d) Bundles of flax.

9. What makes preparing a meal difficult for Hattie?
(a) The lack of cooking oil.
(b) The heat.
(c) Her best frying pan has warped badly in the heat.
(d) The lack of firewood.

10. What does Hattie see with Leafie?
(a) The new style of bicycles.
(b) A homeless goat.
(c) The newest in automobiles.
(d) A military tank.

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

12. What does Hattie realize about Traft that softens her attitude towards him momentarily?
(a) That his mother rules over him.
(b) That he is probably going to die young.
(c) That he does care about Hattie.
(d) That he is not very bright.

13. Why does Karl come over to Hattie's home late one night?
(a) To ask her to move in with Perilee when he is drafted.
(b) To tell Hattie the baby is coming.
(c) To fix her hen house when coyotes break into it.
(d) Looking for Leafie.

14. Who brings news of the Spanish influenza to Hattie in October?
(a) Karl Mueller.
(b) Leafie.
(c) Rooster Jim.
(d) Traft Martin.

15. How does Chase help in the threshing?
(a) Bundling the shocks.
(b) Carrying water out to the fields.
(c) Counting the shocks by making marks on a piece of wood.
(d) He does not help.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Traft say about why he is not serving in the military?

2. What does Rooster Jim use as a trellis for his string beans?

3. What store does Hattie stop at in town?

4. Where is Elmer Ren?

5. What request of Perilee's does Karl refuse?

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