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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where was Charlie's friend standing when the man was killed?
(a) Several hundred yards.
(b) Charlie does not say.
(c) Within a couple feet.
(d) About twenty yards away.

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

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

5. What does Hattie get to do during the game the picnic participants play?
(a) Play quarterback.
(b) Nothing as women are not allowed.
(c) Referee.
(d) Pitch.

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

7. What does Mr. Hanson offer Hattie and Leafie?
(a) A cold beer.
(b) Candy and sarsaparilla.
(c) A spot near the front of the viewing stand.
(d) A cold glass of tea.

8. What kind of tea does Leafie mix to fight the flu?
(a) Sagebrush tea.
(b) Green tea.
(c) Flax tea.
(d) Oolong tea.

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

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

11. What is Hattie told is the minimal allowable pledge?
(a) 5 dollars.
(b) 10 dollars.
(c) 50 dollars.
(d) 100 dollars.

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

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

14. Who does Leafie and Hattie call upon one day?
(a) Traft Martin.
(b) The Mueller family.
(c) Reverend Tweed.
(d) The Ren family.

15. Why does Hattie spend a great deal of time with Perilee these days?
(a) Hattie is afraid of the Defense League members.
(b) Perilee has chicken pox.
(c) Perilee's baby is expected.
(d) Hattie is afraid of Traft Martin.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what is Hattie threatened when she voices her concern about a pledge?

2. Who dies in Hattie's arms?

3. What is Richey going to pick up for Karl?

4. What does Perilee promise that she is unable to keep?

5. What does Hattie have Chase doing?

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