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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. What does Bando's wife Zella do?
(a) Professor.
(b) Teacher.
(c) Doctor.
(d) Lawyer.

2. What did Sam sit on before he built his lounging chair?
(a) Bucket.
(b) Milking stool.
(c) Large can.
(d) Old stump.

3. What does Sam decide to barbecue for his supper in Part 5?
(a) Rabbit.
(b) Squirrel.
(c) Trout.
(d) Venison.

4. Last year what nuts were in poor supply?
(a) Butter nut.
(b) Hickory.
(c) Acorn.
(d) Walnut.

5. What does Sam's father do?
(a) Farm.
(b) Work on the docks.
(c) Doctor.
(d) Lawyer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Alice go at the beginning of Chapter 1?

2. What did Bando and Zella bring for the opening of the sawmill?

3. What does Sam decide to fix for supper in Part 5?

4. How much younger is Alice than Sam?

5. Where do eastern peregrine falcons breed?

Short Essay Questions

1. How long did Sam's father think Alice would stay on the mountain?

2. Why doesn't Zella like the cabin Bando purchased?

3. Why does Alice want electricity?

4. What might be a solution to Sam's problem of how to get meat now that Frightful is gone?

5. Why did Sam's family come to the mountain last year and then leave?

6. What does Sam find missing from Alice's home when he goes to check?

7. How did Sam and Alice learn to build a dam that doesn't wash out?

8. What did Sam, Alice, and their friends do for Thanksgiving dinner last year?

9. Why does Sam decide that he can't raise pheasant and quail for meat?

10. How did Sam fell the big hemlock for the sluice?

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