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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. 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.

2. Who is running errands for Karl?
(a) Traft.
(b) Hattie.
(c) Leafie.
(d) Perilee.

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

4. Why does Elmer Junior chase Deputy Patton?
(a) For beating his father.
(b) For arresting his father.
(c) For pushing his pregnant mother.
(d) For shooting Elmer's dog who attacks the Deputy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are shocks?

2. Who is Traft and others harassing?

3. What does Hattie manage to do despite her fears?

4. What causes Hattie to become angry again at Traft?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What are Hattie and Perilee working on as Perilee waits to deliver her baby, and what does Perilee promise?

2. Why does Karl come to Hattie's late one night, and what does Hattie do?

3. How does Elmer Junior intervene for his father and what is the result?

4. How does Hattie learn about birthing babies the hard way?

5. How does Hattie help Mr. Ebgard?

6. Why does Traft say about the fire in Hattie's barn when he comes by to see her after the July 4th picnic?

7. What does Traft have to say as he stops by and waters his horse?

8. What does Charlie write to Hattie in a somber letter?

9. What happens to Elmer Ren while Hattie and Leafie are visiting?

10. Who comes to help Hattie with the threshing and how does Chase contribute?

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