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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. Who repeatedly slaps Victoria?
(a) Dwayne.
(b) No one.
(c) Russell.
(d) Maggie's father.

2. What does Russell Beckman do to Guthrie?
(a) Punches him, breaking one of Guthrie's teeth.
(b) Stabs him.
(c) Starts an untrue rumor about him.
(d) Apologizes to him.

3. What does one of Victoria's teachers say she will do?
(a) Speak to the father of her baby.
(b) Speak to Victoria's grandparents.
(c) Speak to the parents of the father of her baby.
(d) Go to a doctor with Victoria.

4. What do they have to do to one of the cows?
(a) Kill it.
(b) Cut out a large fence splinter.
(c) Isolate it for the vet to check.
(d) Remove a mis-shapen horn.

5. What does Maggie notice about the McPherons' house when they enter it?
(a) It is very dirty.
(b) It has been cleaned up.
(c) It is very large.
(d) It is very small.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Mr. Beckman angry at Crowder?

2. With whom does Maggie Jones live?

3. What does Crowder decide to do with Russell?

4. Why does Victoria run out of the classroom?

5. Where does the father of Victoria's baby live?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who gathers at the McPherons' for a Memorial Day celebration and what do the brothers tell Guthrie?

2. What happens at the beginning of the book when Tom Guthrie goes in to speak with his wife before leaving for school?

3. What happens when Guthrie goes to speak to Russell about what he did to Ike and Bobby?

4. What do the boys tell Guthrie when he picks them up at the McPherons' and what do they ask him?

5. What does Victoria do in Denver and how does she feel about her life there?

6. What do the McPheron brothers say when Tom Guthrie arrives with Ike and Bobby to help vaccinate their cattle?

7. What does Victoria tell the McPheron brothers about where she was and where do they take her?

8. What do Ike and Bobby do after their paper route on the morning their horse is sick? What happens to the horse and what does the veterinarian do?

9. What happens when Victoria goes home after school the afternoon her mother decided Victoria was pregnant?

10. What does Maggie tell Victoria she has to do to make certain she is pregnant, what is the result and what does Maggie then tell Victoria she will do? What does Victoria ask Maggie?

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