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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many hours a day do stoop laborers work picking things like strawberries, tomatoes, melons, spinach, cotton, or rice?
(a) 8.
(b) 13.
(c) 10.
(d) 12.

2. What is Sunny fixing to eat in "The First Property of Thirst"?
(a) Lamb chops.
(b) Baked chicken and pork chops.
(c) Roast beef.
(d) Spatchcocks and pheasant.

3. Why is Lt. Jay Svevo late arriving in Lone Pine to work with Schiff?
(a) His grandfather died.
(b) He got married.
(c) His grandmother died.
(d) His father died.

4. What color eyes do members of the Rhodes family have?
(a) Blue.
(b) Gray.
(c) Brown.
(d) Green.

5. How big is Lone Pine?
(a) 5 blocks long and 2 blocks wide.
(b) 7 blocks long and 4 blocks wide.
(c) 6 blocks long and 3 blocks wide.
(d) 10 blocks long and 8 blocks wide.

6. In August Escoffier's cookbook, what color ink did Lou use to underline some of the words?
(a) Blue.
(b) Red.
(c) Black.
(d) Purple.

7. How much should Bobby Kaye and his group have paid for dinner at Lou's in "The Second property of Thirst"?
(a) $243.
(b) $151.
(c) $119.
(d) $209.

8. What time would Schiff's family eat their evening meal?
(a) 5:30 p.m.
(b) 6:30 p.m.
(c) 5 p.m. or sometimes earlier.
(d) 6 p.m. or sometimes later.

9. What ghost town was on the shore of what used to be Owens Lake?
(a) Calico.
(b) Shasta.
(c) Keeler.
(d) Ballarat.

10. In "The Second Property of Thirst," how many people show up at Lou's without calling ahead and Sunny asks Schiff to help serve?
(a) 15.
(b) 13.
(c) 17.
(d) 22.

11. What Native Americans told Sunny about her mother's interest in Native American Indian foods?
(a) Washoes.
(b) Mohaves and Hopis.
(c) Hupas.
(d) Paiutes and Shoshones.

12. What color coat is Schiff wearing as the internees arrive?
(a) Black.
(b) Brown.
(c) Navy.
(d) Gray.

13. In "The First Property of Thirst," how many years has Rocky been taking the same morning walk?
(a) 41.
(b) 37.
(c) 19.
(d) 26.

14. How old were Sunny and Stryker when they quit sharing a bedroom?
(a) 5.
(b) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

15. How many camps are to be located throughout the United States for detaining Japanese-American citizens?
(a) 14.
(b) 8.
(c) 12.
(d) 10.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the river drained of snowmelt that fed the lake?

2. What was Sunny's mother's given name?

3. What do the church ladies provide the children internees when they arive?

4. What does Cas drink all day long?

5. When did Rocky dig up cedar fence posts and replant them over the last remaining water dome on his property?

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