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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When does Hattie's uncle Holt take her into his home?
(a) When Hattie is 7.
(b) When Hattie is 2.
(c) When Hattie is 13.
(d) When Hattie first becomes an orphan.

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

4. Who gives Hattie Mr. Whiskers?
(a) Charlie Hawley.
(b) Mrs. Mueller.
(c) Hattie found the cat herself.
(d) Uncle Holt.

5. What is the date at the opening of the novel?
(a) 1935.
(b) 1917.
(c) 1901.
(d) 1899.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many rods have been planted in Hattie's absence?

2. What will cost the Mueller family considerably?

3. What does Mr. Saboe announce at dinner?

4. How does Hattie write about her life in the letters she writes?

5. Why is Hattie still unable to plant?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Violet lose part of her tail?

2. What happens the next day after the dance to the Mueller's barn?

3. Describe the interaction between Traft and Hattie on April 2.

4. What does the letter from Hattie's uncle Chester say?

5. Who arrives to pick Mattie up in Wolf Point, and why do they spend the night there?

6. Who has been Hattie's main supporters when she comes to live with Uncle Holt and Aunt Ivy?

7. What does Leafie say about Traft Martin when Hattie sees Leafie at the dance?

8. What does Hattie write to Uncle Holt and Charlie and who mails them for her?

9. How does Hattie defuse Traft's aggression towards Mr. Saboe?

10. How does Leafie stop some men from running the Mueller's cow to death?

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