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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What drives the unnamed man to retrieve the baby?
(a) Greed.
(b) Love.
(c) Guilt.
(d) Fear.

2. Why does Culla go to town?
(a) To go to church.
(b) To mail a letter.
(c) To get food.
(d) To work at the lumberyard.

3. At whose home does Culla ask for a job?
(a) The postmaster's.
(b) The squire's.
(c) The grocer's.
(d) The blacksmith's.

4. Where is the unnamed man's home located?
(a) In the city.
(b) In the suburbs.
(c) In the woods.
(d) On a beach.

5. Rinthy meets a woman who had __________ dead children.
(a) two.
(b) seven.
(c) three.
(d) five.

6. Where is the nurse located?
(a) Memphis.
(b) Nearby the store.
(c) At the edge of the woods.
(d) The next town.

7. In what town does Culla look for work?
(a) Rocky Fork.
(b) Windsor.
(c) Spring Creek.
(d) Cheatham.

8. Who or what does the person in #19 find in the woods?
(a) A soldier.
(b) A fawn.
(c) A baby.
(d) A convict.

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

10. Why does Culla become angry at his sister?
(a) She set the house on fire.
(b) She told the sheriff about the baby.
(c) He catches her digging in the grave.
(d) She burned the last food they had.

11. What reason does Culla's sister give for looking for the person/item in #68?
(a) She misses him.
(b) He has something that belongs to her.
(c) She needs money.
(d) She is depressed.

12. What does the unnamed man dream as the story begins?
(a) He sees the end of the world.
(b) He sees his dead mother.
(c) He is asking God to heal him.
(d) He is walking down a long road.

13. Where does the vendor take the person in #24?
(a) To the hospital.
(b) To his store.
(c) To the closest house.
(d) To the minister's house.

14. In what town does Culla look for work?
(a) Spring Creek.
(b) Rocky Fork.
(c) Windsor.
(d) Cheatham.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What harrowing sight does Rinthy see on her journey?

2. What is the woman in the garden doing?

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

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

5. What does Culla's sister realize about him?

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