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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Mother joins him outside after she cleans up the dinner dishes following his return to the farm, what does she notice about Father?
(a) That he is crying.
(b) That he is moving things back into the old house.
(c) That he is talking to his friends.
(d) That he is talking to the minister.

2. What is the best description of Mother as she waits for Father's return to the farm?
(a) Cleaned up and dressed in a new calico.
(b) Dissheveled and exhausted from moving.
(c) Dirty from working the new cows in the new barn.
(d) No where to be found.

3. By the day after the arrival at the farm, what information do the townspeople know?
(a) Father will build Mother a new barn for their new cows.
(b) Father will not build Mother a new house.
(c) Mother has moved into the new barn.
(d) Mother is livid.

4. Mother hands something to Father just before he leaves the farm. What is it?
(a) A kiss.
(b) A packed lunch.
(c) A pat on the shoulder.
(d) Enough food to last four days.

5. What does Mother say to Father as he leaves on his trip away from the farm?
(a) She says she loves him.
(b) She bids him farewell.
(c) She tells him not to come back until he agrees to build the barn.
(d) She say to give her brother her regards.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Father wonder as he looks at his family following his return to the farm?

2. What do some of the people think about the gossip news in Section 4?

3. What does Mother tell Nanny to do following the arrival at the farm?

4. What arrives at 11:00 in the morning in Section 4?

5. When Father arrives on the property after his absence from the farm, where does he go?

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