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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the reason given in the introduction for the protagonist's actions?
(a) To meet the deep-felt need of his friends.
(b) To meet the deep-felt need of his children.
(c) To meet her own deep-felt need.
(d) To meet the deep-felt need of her husband.

2. What does Sammy do after Mother asks him her question?
(a) Ignores her.
(b) Tells her that he has no idea what his father is planning to do.
(c) Walks out of the house.
(d) Throws his plate against the wall.

3. What does Nanny's confusion regarding the reason to why men are digging in the field center upon?
(a) A new house.
(b) A ditch.
(c) A cemetery.
(d) Another barn.

4. From the introduction, what does the reader know about the main character?
(a) The main character will attack her husband.
(b) The the main character will have his children go against his wife.
(c) The main character will attack his minister.
(d) The main character will become engrossed in her relationships with her family.

5. What, specifically, does Mother do all day in Section 2?
(a) Works cattle.
(b) Sleeps all day and all night.
(c) Buys things that she needs for her new house.
(d) Cleans house and bakes pies.

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

7. What is Mother's attitude after she hears Sammy's response to her second question?
(a) She is sad and goes into her room to cry.
(b) She is angry and goes outside so she can find Father and yell at him.
(c) She is happy and says she is glad Father is buying more cows.
(d) She is angry and says that women are not supposed to complain.

8. What does Nanny do as Mother copes with Sammy's information?
(a) Cleans the house while her mother is in town.
(b) Helps Sammy out on the farm.
(c) Works on embroidery for her fall wedding.
(d) Bakes pies so her mother can sleep.

9. What is the best description of Mother's assessment of her own attitude toward their house?
(a) She loves her house but that it is Nanny who complains about it.
(b) She loves their house.
(c) She knows she has always complained about the house, and she does not understand why Father won't listen.
(d) She has never complained about their house.

10. How does Father respond to Mother's reaction toward why the men are digging in the field?
(a) He leaves without saying another word to her.
(b) He hugs her and tells her not to worry about it.
(c) He tells her to go into the house and keep her feelings to herself.
(d) He screams back at her.

11. From the introduction, how does the reader know that the protagonist will defy social convention?
(a) She goes against her daughter's will.
(b) She goes against her husband's will.
(c) He goes against his children's will.
(d) He goes against his wife's will.

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

13. What is Mother's response to Nanny's suggestion of where she be married?
(a) She screams at Nanny for such a ridiculous idea.
(b) She is startled.
(c) Starts to cry.
(d) She thinks it is a fabulous idea.

14. How does Mother describe their house to Father?
(a) New wallpaper, new carpet, a lot of storage, and three rooms.
(b) New wallpaper, new carpet, no storage, and several rooms.
(c) Old wallpaper, no carpet, no storage, and only one room.
(d) Old wallpaper, no carpet, no storage, and two rooms.

15. In Section 2, what happens when Father returns to the house?
(a) The family eats.
(b) Sammy helps to build a house.
(c) Mother helps to build a barn.
(d) The family fights.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Nanny returns to the house, what does she tell her mother?

2. Which of the following best describes Nanny's logic behind her confusion regarding the digging?

3. After Father goes back into the field to work following their discussion about the state of the house and barn, what does Mother do?

4. How does Mother cope with Sammy's information?

5. When Mother is talking to Father about their house, what is it that she cannot comprehend?

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