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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Alexandra and Emil talk about after the festival as Emil prepares to move?
(a) Marie.
(b) The wild duck.
(c) Their father.
(d) The farm.

2. What does Marie make for Emil during the winter?
(a) A book.
(b) A hat.
(c) A painting.
(d) A scarf.

3. Whom does Ivar say will comfort Alexandra after the deaths of Marie and Emil?
(a) The pastor.
(b) God.
(c) The dead.
(d) Carl.

4. What is scheduled in the church after Amedee's death?
(a) Confirmations.
(b) Confessions.
(c) A wedding.
(d) Baptisms.

5. Whom does Alexandra say made her grandfather crooked?
(a) Greed.
(b) Poverty.
(c) A woman.
(d) A severed friendship.

6. What caused Amedee's pain?
(a) A ruptured appendix.
(b) A digestive disease.
(c) A gangrenous cut.
(d) A spider bite.

7. What does Alexandra say will happen if Carl goes away?
(a) He will be unhappy.
(b) He will find what he is looking for.
(c) He will never come back.
(d) He will forget about her.

8. What does Alexandra tell Carl she feels Emil has done to her?
(a) Used her.
(b) Betrayed her.
(c) Abandoned her.
(d) Taken advantage of her.

9. Where does Emil talk with Amedee before leaving for Omaha?
(a) The dinner table.
(b) The front porch.
(c) The barn.
(d) The fields.

10. Who tells Alexandra that Lous and Oscar are talking to Carl?
(a) Frank.
(b) Marie.
(c) Ivar.
(d) Emil.

11. How is Amedee's farm doing just before Emil leaves for Omaha?
(a) It is prospering.
(b) It is barely feeding them.
(c) It is failing.
(d) There are more crops than he can handle.

12. What does Marie find that reminds her of the old Frank?
(a) A hat.
(b) A picture.
(c) A cane.
(d) A book.

13. Who supports Amedee when he collapses?
(a) His farm hands.
(b) His wife.
(c) Emil.
(d) His cousins.

14. What is flying over the dead lovers?
(a) Butterflies.
(b) Crows.
(c) Dragonflies.
(d) Bluebirds.

15. What led someone to find the dead lovers?
(a) The scent.
(b) Emil's horse.
(c) Scavenger birds.
(d) A trail of blood.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Alexandra feel safe in marrying Carl?

2. Where does Frank ride after finding Marie and Emil together?

3. What does Carl say Alexandra will always be surrounded by?

4. What does Alexandra have a fantasy of?

5. Why does Ivar not think Emil is in paradise after his death?

(see the answer keys)

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