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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Oscar's wife so ashamed of?
(a) Being uneducated.
(b) Not having smart children.
(c) Marrying a foreigner.
(d) Being associated with Ivar.

2. What does Oscar say about Carl when Carl is visiting the French Country?
(a) He is a failure.
(b) He wants Alexandra for her money.
(c) He has a bad reputation.
(d) He is ruining the family.

3. How old is Emil at the beginning of the book?
(a) 6.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 5.

4. What kind of girl does Amedee tell Carl to marry?
(a) A kind girl.
(b) A French girl.
(c) A strong girl.
(d) A young girl.

5. Why do Oscar and Lou think Alexandra's farm prospered?
(a) They worked the land.
(b) She had good managment methods.
(c) The Lord blessed them.
(d) They followed their father's orders.

6. What kind of awards does Emil commonly win at school at the beginning of Part 2?
(a) Scientific.
(b) Civic.
(c) Academic.
(d) Athletic.

7. Who signs the mortgage papers that Alexandra gets?
(a) Lou.
(b) Alexadra.
(c) Oscar.
(d) Emil.

8. What is the name of Marie's new husband?
(a) Harold.
(b) Franz.
(c) Henry.
(d) Frank.

9. What does John tell his children to always let their mother do?
(a) Sing.
(b) Sell her butter.
(c) Keep a garden.
(d) Walk at night.

10. Who goes to the French Country with Carl?
(a) Alexandra.
(b) Emil.
(c) Marie.
(d) Frank.

11. Where was Marie raised?
(a) In an orphanage.
(b) In Europe.
(c) On a farm.
(d) In the city.

12. What do the furnishings in Alexandra's large farmhouse look like?
(a) Unfinished.
(b) Unused.
(c) Elegant.
(d) Antique.

13. What does Alexandra tell Carl she hates about her life?
(a) The intensity.
(b) The repetition.
(c) The criticism.
(d) The labor.

14. What does Alexandra tell her brothers she wants to do when she returns home from looking at the riverside property?
(a) Buy the abandoned farms.
(b) Buy strips of river property.
(c) Stay where they are.
(d) Sell pieces of their land.

15. What does Frank get so upset about after reading the newspaper?
(a) A rich man's divorce.
(b) The marriage of his old beau.
(c) The falling price of crops.
(d) The new president.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Barney Flinn's occupation?

2. What does Ivar read in his house?

3. Why is Emil afraid of Ivar?

4. How does Alexandra describe Emil while talking to Carl?

5. Who sleeps in Alexandra's barn in Part 2?

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