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

2. Where is Elmer Ren?
(a) He has enlisted.
(b) He is dead.
(c) He went to Canada.
(d) He is still in jail for draft dodging.

3. What day has been declared National War Savings Day?
(a) January 1.
(b) November 11.
(c) June 28th.
(d) August 12.

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

5. With what is Hattie threatened when she voices her concern about a pledge?
(a) Her name being published in the local newspaper.
(b) Her bank account being seized.
(c) Her homestead approval being turned down.
(d) A trip in front of the judge to review her patriotism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does not attend the Independence Day picnic?

2. What does Perilee instead Karl do?

3. Why does Hattie spend a great deal of time with Perilee these days?

4. What does Traft ask Hattie?

5. Of what are the papers full?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens after Hattie and the others who are threshing see big, black clouds rolling in?

2. What has Hattie been doing at night to fight the heat?

3. What does Hattie's next installment describe?

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

5. What epidemic strikes the area where Hattie lives and what does Leafie do?

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

8. What does Hattie think about after witnessing events at the Ren homestead?

9. What has Perilee asked of Karl concerning the harassment of them because Karl is German?

10. How does Hattie acquire chickens and what does she have to do to keep them safe?

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