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

2. What was Betty's and Arnie's farm a constant operation in, according to Smarsh?
(a) Debt.
(b) Alcohol.
(c) Food production.
(d) Angst.

3. What rare ailment did Betty have in Chapter 2?
(a) Legionnaire's Disease.
(b) Huntington's Disease.
(c) Histpoplasmosis.
(d) Lupus.

4. What church did Nick and Jeannie marry in?
(a) St. Tikon's.
(b) Our Lady of Plains.
(c) St. Nicholas.
(d) St. Rose.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Smarsh's father's name?

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

3. When did Betty and Arnie get married?

4. Which city was Smarsh's family farm 30 miles west of?

5. What kind of toy did Jeannie have as a child that she was heartbroken to lose?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Smarsh's parents, Jeannie and Nick, meet?

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

3. In Part I, why was Jeannie considering calling off her wedding to Nick, and what changed her mind?

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

5. Why does Smarsh love going to church as a child?

6. What kinds of health epidemics does Smarsh say rural families often face today?

7. In Part II, what does Betty become so ill with?

8. What skill did Jeannie and Nick both have in common?

9. Why was Nick's barn burning down such a blow to Smarsh's family?

10. Why does Smarsh feel she needs to be so vigilant in childhood?

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