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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the unnamed man buy from the vendor?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Bible.
(c) Tea.
(d) Pipe tobacco.

2. Why is the unnamed man hiding the fact that the woman is pregnant?
(a) She is a minor.
(b) She is unmarried.
(c) She is a runaway girl.
(d) It is not known.

3. Who is about to give birth in the unnamed man's house?
(a) His wife.
(b) His sister-in-law.
(c) His neighbor's wife.
(d) His sister.

4. Who cuts the baby's umbilical cord?
(a) The midwife.
(b) The vendor.
(c) The mother.
(d) The unnamed man.

5. Where is the person or item found in the woods?
(a) Under some brush.
(b) Near a stream.
(c) A bed of moss.
(d) A cave.

6. Why does the unnamed man refuse to get the item in #10?
(a) She will vomit if she eats now.
(b) She cannot afford to get drunk.
(c) There are no more blankets in the house.
(d) A midwife would tell other people about the baby.

7. How does Culla elude the men?
(a) Jumps in a water-filled ravine.
(b) Hides in a cave.
(c) Lays flat in the woods.
(d) Hitches a ride away from the area.

8. Who or what does the unnamed man refuse to get for the woman in labor?
(a) Food.
(b) Blanket.
(c) Whiskey.
(d) Midwife.

9. In what type of house does the unnamed man live?
(a) Log cabin.
(b) Townhouse.
(c) Farmhouse.
(d) Apartment.

10. What does Culla see as he pulls the ladder up to the barn to work?
(a) Men storming toward him.
(b) A wasps' nest.
(c) A beautiful sunrise.
(d) A dead cow.

11. What does the unnamed man do with the newborn child?
(a) Leaves it in the woods.
(b) Feeds him a bottle.
(c) Cleans him.
(d) Takes him to a clinic.

12. Which of the following items does the vendor NOT have?
(a) Coffee.
(b) Skillets.
(c) Horse.
(d) Thread.

13. What food does Rinthy steal from a garden?
(a) Potatoes.
(b) Strawberries.
(c) Turnips.
(d) Carrots.

14. What is Culla's sister's name?
(a) Ruthie.
(b) Robbie.
(c) Rinthy.
(d) Rebecca.

15. Who is Culla?
(a) The tinker.
(b) The town's postmaster.
(c) The minister.
(d) The brother of the girl who gave birth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the fate of the abandoned baby?

2. What kind of work does a woman hire Rinthy to do?

3. Culla's sister stops at a house where she is met by a man on the porch holding a __________.

4. What does the person in #19 hear in the woods?

5. How much longer would the baby have lived had the vendor not found him?

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