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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 did Smarsh remember her father letting her do when they visited Betty in the hospital?
(a) Eat in the hospital cafeteria.
(b) Walk into the hospital room alone.
(c) Buy flowers at the hospital gift shop.
(d) Ride in a wheelchair.

2. Which town did Smarsh begin kindergarten in?
(a) Lawrence.
(b) Wichita.
(c) Omaha.
(d) Cheney.

3. How did Nick become poisoned in Chapter 2?
(a) By off-gassing from roofing materials.
(b) Through a job transporting toxic chemicals and solvents.
(c) From pressure-treated lumber.
(d) From fertilizer fumes on the farm.

4. What life-threatening injury befalls Betty as a child?
(a) She is nearly killed on a construction site.
(b) She nearly drowns in a nearby lake.
(c) She nearly falls down a sinkhole.
(d) She is nearly electrocuted as a child when a power company worker leaves a live wire laying on the ground.

5. When was Smarsh's father born?
(a) Halloween in 1955.
(b) Christmas Day in 1950.
(c) Christmas Day in 1960.
(d) Labor Day in 1955.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Latin phrase is on the Kansas state flag?

2. What work did Smarsh's father primarily do?

3. Which American president was a native of rural Kansas?

4. What is Smarsh's nickname as a child?

5. How did Smarsh's grandfather Chic die?

Short Essay Questions

1. What birthday does Smarsh's father have that Smarsh feels is a sort of poetic for him?

2. In Part II, what event with small animals greatly upsets Smarsh?

3. How does Nick become so sick in Part II?

4. How does Smarsh define her family's poverty in Part I?

5. In Part I, what is the one fact of Smarsh's family history she thinks most significantly shaped her relationship to August?

6. In Part II, how does Smarsh describe her great-grandfather, Aaron, drawing on others' memories?

7. What was Smarsh's relationship with her mother like when Smarsh was a young child?

8. What kind of parallel does Smarsh draw between the kittens in Part II and farming families?

9. In Part I, what is one of Nick's greatest accomplishments in carpentry?

10. How does Nick's pole barn burn down?

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