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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 Reuben dream the night that he and Swede plan to break Davy out of jail?
(a) That his father died.
(b) That a snake bit him.
(c) That a piglet bit him.
(d) That someone was chasing him.

2. What is Tin Lurvy selling on Swede's birthday?
(a) Patented medicines.
(b) Cufflinks.
(c) Vacuum cleaners.
(d) World Book encyclopedias.

3. About twelve days after Davy's escape, Reuben comes to tell his father that his lungs are tight. What is Jeremiah reading that night?
(a) Jeremiah 33.
(b) Psalm 91.
(c) Lamentations 3.
(d) Psalm 121.

4. What does Swede read to Reuben the night after the first day of Davy's trial?
(a) Charles Dickens.
(b) Graham Greene.
(c) Robert Louis Stevenson.
(d) C. S. Lewis.

5. What type of vehicle do the Lands drive when they go hunting at Shultz's place?
(a) Plymouth.
(b) Chevy.
(c) Dodge.
(d) Ford.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Swede pretend to be when the Lands crawl up on Canadian geese?

2. What time was Stube released from Davy's cell?

3. What church do the Lands attend?

4. What western author might Jeremiah have enjoyed reading when he was in his late twenties?

5. Where was Lurvy when he became sick and needed an operation?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why doesn't Reuben get a good-bye kiss from Bethany?

2. Why are Swede's sugar cookies sometimes unorthodox?

3. Why does Reuben resent that Jeremiah healed Mr. Holgren?

4. Where was Jeremiah Land when Reuben was born?

5. After Reuben testifies, he and Swede decide to break Davy out of jail. Why are their plans to break Davy out of jail thwarted?

6. Why is Jeremiah fired from his job as janitor at the elementary school?

7. What does Reuben feel when he touches his dad during the revival service held by Rev. Johnny Latt?

8. Describe Mrs. DeCuellar.

9. Where do the Lands go to hunt geese?

10. What does Reuben hear and see when he gets up in the night at the Schultz's to use the outhouse?

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