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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What answer does Mother give to Nanny's question about what the men are digging for?
(a) A cellar for a new barn.
(b) A place to put a new house.
(c) A grave.
(d) The cellar for a new house.

3. What is the second question Mother asks Sammy?
(a) Is Father planning to purchase additional cows?
(b) Is Father planning to sell their livestock?
(c) Is Father planning to go into town?
(d) Is Father planning to build a new house?

4. At first, how does Sammy respond to Mother's second question?
(a) By ignoring her.
(b) By storming out of the house.
(c) By answering her.
(d) By yelling at her.

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

6. What is the best description of the house Adoniram and Sarah Penn own?
(a) A quaint but beautiful two-story house.
(b) A tiny shack.
(c) A large, spacious mansion.
(d) A small but adequate house.

7. When Sammy leaves in Section 2, where does Nanny go?
(a) To school with Sammy.
(b) To the store to buy more thread for her embroidery.
(c) To the neighbor's house with Sammy.
(d) To the store to buy more mincemeat for the pies.

8. What is the promise that Mother reminds Father he made to her?
(a) To build a house sometime during the first ten years of their marriage.
(b) To have more children.
(c) To build her a second barn.
(d) To build a house before their first year of marriage was over.

9. What reason does Mother give Father for needing improvements on the farm?
(a) They need a new home so they can have more children.
(b) Sammy needs a new home in which to get married.
(c) They need a new barn so they can have more animals and make more money.
(d) Nanny needs a new home in which to get married.

10. What is the second thing Mother asks of Father once the bantering is over?
(a) If he is planning to buy more cows.
(b) If he is planning to buy more horses.
(c) If he is planning to buy more pigs.
(d) If he is planning to hire more workers.

11. Which of the following best describes Nanny's logic behind her confusion regarding the digging?
(a) A family cemetery is not needed when everyone is healthy and young.
(b) Another barn in unnecessary when their house is in such poor condition.
(c) Another house is unnecessary when the one in which they live is in such good condition.
(d) A ditch is not nececssary because there is a river down the road.

12. What does Mother ask Sammy when she goes back into the house after learning the reason for the digging?
(a) If he was aware that his father was planning to build a new house.
(b) If he was aware that his father was planning to build a new barn.
(c) If he wants more supper.
(d) What his book is about.

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

14. When Mother watches the men digging in the field, what does she ask Father?
(a) What crops they are going to plant.
(b) What they are digging for.
(c) If he is ready for supper.
(d) When the new cows are arriving.

15. For how long has Sammy been aware of the new information he gives Mother?
(a) For six months.
(b) For three months.
(c) For six weeks.
(d) For three weeks.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Father answers Mother's question about what they are digging for, what is his response?

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

3. As the story begins, when does Mother say she will return to the house?

4. What does the protagonist NOT defy?

5. What is the best description of the story with regard to the author's writing work?

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