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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Father doing when he has to leave the farm?
(a) Buying Mother some new calico.
(b) Helping with the neighbor's barn.
(c) Picking up a horse.
(d) Setting up chairs.

2. How does Father respond to Mother's delay in returning to the house?
(a) He tells her that she needs to go into the house immediately.
(b) Father ignores Mother and puts the saddle on his horse.
(c) He goes into the house.
(d) He says he will tell her later why the men are digging in the field.

3. What is Mother's reaction to why the men are digging?
(a) She is very sad.
(b) She is very happy.
(c) She does not care one way or the other.
(d) She is very angry.

4. There is an underlying attitude that the author provides as Father gives the directions for while he is away on his trip. What is that underlying attitude?
(a) Fighting being apologetic.
(b) Embarrassed about being remorseful.
(c) Pretending to be apologetic.
(d) Fine being apologetic.

5. What is Mother's description of what Father is doing regarding the family house and barn?
(a) Not lodging his "dumb beasts" very well.
(b) Not providing well for his family.
(c) Providing well for his family.
(d) Lodging his "dumb beasts" better than his flesh and blood.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mother say to Father as he leaves on his trip away from the farm?

2. How does Mother describe their house to Father?

3. From the introduction, how does the reader know that the protagonist will defy social convention?

4. Mother hands something to Father just before he leaves the farm. What is it?

5. What is the second question Mother asks Sammy?

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