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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Carl and Alexandra do during the evenings while he is visiting?

2. How much older than Carl is Alexandra?

3. What does Carl plan to train himself to do?

4. Where do Marie and Emil meet to talk about Bohemians?

5. What does Oscar say about Carl when Carl is visiting the French Country?

Short Essay Questions

1. What question does Alexandra ask Ivar about her hogs, and what is his response?

2. What is Frank upset about when he comes home while Carl and Alexandra are visiting?

3. What does Carl witness between Marie and Emil one morning while walking alone?

4. Why did Marie's father not like Frank, and what did he do to get her to stop seeing Frank?

5. What is the common view of Emil in Part 2, and why is this so surprising?

6. What does Alexandra decide to do after looking at the riverside property?

7. What does Carl do to cheer Alexandria up when she returns home at the beginning of the book?

8. What does Alexandra do while looking at the riverside property?

9. What does Alexandra say to her mother to calm her fears about losing her farm?

10. What kind of hardships has John Bergson faced in his attempts at farming?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What role does symbolism play in the story and where does it appear? How is the plot altered by the presence of these symbols?

Essay Topic 2

What are some of the key examples of gratitude in this book, and how do these instances affect that characters involved in those scenes?

Essay Topic 3

Friendship is a strong theme throughout the book. Where are some places that this theme appears, and how do the characters touched by it react? How do certain friendships change over the course of the book, and what causes these changes?

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