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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 is Smarsh's grandmother on her mother's side?
(a) Dorothy.
(b) Mary.
(c) Betty.
(d) Theresa.
2. What did Smarsh's family do one July 4 to make money?
(a) Sold potato pancakes.
(b) Charged admission to their swimming pool.
(c) Sold hot dogs.
(d) Sold fireworks.
3. Which U.S. president visited Kansas City in 1979?
(a) Richard Nixon.
(b) Bill Clinton.
(c) Jimmy Carter.
(d) Gerald Ford.
4. How did Smarsh's grandfather Chic die?
(a) He had prostate cancer.
(b) He had a heart attack.
(c) He had an accident involving farm equipment.
(d) He was in a car accident.
5. What did Betty sometimes call Smarsh as a child?
(a) Sweetie.
(b) Sue.
(c) Sarah Smurf.
(d) Sis.
Short Answer Questions
1. What poplar concert series meant to provide assistance to farms did Arnie say he never saw a dime from?
2. What work did Smarsh's father primarily do?
3. What church did Nick and Jeannie marry in?
4. In Chapter 2, what life-threatening occurrences befell Smarsh many times?
5. Smarsh says the American economy is less like a dream than it is like which of the following?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Part I, what do Smarsh's parents do around the Fourth of July to make a significant amount of money?
2. What are Smarsh's memories of her father Nick like from childhood?
3. How do Smarsh's parents, Jeannie and Nick, meet?
4. Why does Smarsh address her child that has never been conceived or born as "August?"
5. In Part I, what is one of Nick's greatest accomplishments in carpentry?
6. In Part II, what event with small animals greatly upsets Smarsh?
7. How does Smarsh define her family's poverty in Part I?
8. How does Nick's pole barn burn down?
9. Why does Smarsh love going to church as a child?
10. In Part I, what is the one fact of Smarsh's family history she thinks most significantly shaped her relationship to August?
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