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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 Deanna tell Eddie is fairly rare to find in the forest?
(a) Grouse.
(b) Moose.
(c) Elk.
(d) Skunks.

2. Besides his family, what was the only thing that Lusa's grandfather brought to the United States from Poland?
(a) Woodworking tools.
(b) A clarinet.
(c) A dog.
(d) Tree saplings.

3. What was Lusa's odd dream about in Chapter 5?
(a) Her old life.
(b) A moth making love to her.
(c) A child.
(d) Her husband.

4. Who calls Garnett on the telephone in Chapter 14?
(a) Lusa.
(b) Nannie.
(c) Oda.
(d) Jewel.

5. What does Deanna feel is now gone in her "secret place"?
(a) The magic.
(b) Eddie.
(c) Her confidence.
(d) The coyotes.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Garnett's interpretation of the Bible, what is the role of animals?

2. Whom do Eddie & Deanna find in a tree?

3. What business is Lusa interested in starting?

4. What was Deanna attracted to in college?

5. What are Lusa's brothers-in-law going to plant?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Eddie make Deanna nervous?

2. What is Deanna's main defense of coyotes, concerning the killing of farm livestock?

3. Do you think the way the townspeople treat Lusa at Cole's wake is right?

4. In Chapter 15, Lusa finds she is happier than she has been a long time. Explain this change.

5. Why does Deanna physically attack Eddie, in Chapter 7?

6. What does Nannie need to do to keep her organic farming certification valid?

7. What is Eddie like, at the beginning of the book and how does Deanna react to him?

8. What are Garnett's views of the Amish?

9. How does Lusa feel that the townspeople look at her, since Cole's death?

10. What is a "windfall" in the forest?

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