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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the tinker question Rinthy about?
(a) Whether she is the mother of the baby.
(b) Where her parents are.
(c) Where she went to school.
(d) Where she is headed.

2. Why does the tinker tell Rinthy that she does not deserve the baby?
(a) Because she abandoned it.
(b) Because she doesn't have a job.
(c) Because she is sick.
(d) Because she is too young.

3. Who dies in the stampede of pigs?
(a) Billy.
(b) Watson.
(c) Billy's brother.
(d) Sam.

4. How does the tinker tell Rinthy he came upon the baby?
(a) He found him in the woods.
(b) He bought him.
(c) The baby was left on his porch.
(d) He saw him at an orphanage.

5. Who enters the old man's house at night?
(a) The sheriff.
(b) Three men.
(c) His son.
(d) A neighbor.

6. Who does Culla see in Clark's store?
(a) Rinthy.
(b) Old Man Salter.
(c) No one.
(d) The sheriff.

7. Why does Culla have to wait to cross the river?
(a) He doesn't have the money.
(b) The river is too low.
(c) The river is too rapid.
(d) Until someone with a horse wants to cross.

8. What was the profession of the person/people in #98?
(a) Basket weaver.
(b) Blacksmith.
(c) Farmer.
(d) Snake hunter.

9. What does Rinthy not realize as she sleeps by the campfire?
(a) She will soon find her child.
(b) She has found her child.
(c) She will have another child.
(d) She doesn't have long to live.

10. How does Culla know there are men on the riverbank to help him?
(a) He smells food cooking.
(b) He can see the glow from their cigars.
(c) He sees a campfire.
(d) He sees tethered horses.

11. Who does Rinthy ask for when she reaches a town?
(a) The minister.
(b) Culla.
(c) A midwife.
(d) The doctor.

12. How does the doctor know that Rinthy's baby is alive?
(a) A midwife told him.
(b) She still has milk in her breasts.
(c) Culla told him what happened.
(d) He read about it in the newspaper.

13. What is the town across the river?
(a) Whitlow.
(b) Morgan.
(c) Parkersburg.
(d) Newton.

14. Why does Rinthy sleep near the campfire?
(a) She is very cold.
(b) She is frightened of the dark.
(c) She hopes the fire will keep animals away.
(d) She waits for someone to return.

15. What makes the tinker so mad at Rinthy?
(a) She lied about loving him.
(b) She refuses his advances.
(c) She stole money from him.
(d) Her admission of incest.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the doctor's demeanor toward Rinthy?

2. Who is sitting at the building in #97?

3. What does the ferryman charge to cross the river?

4. Why does the ferry lunge out of control?

5. Who/What does Rinthy find at a campfire?

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