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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Jane's father train her to do?
(a) Cook.
(b) Ride horses.
(c) Run the ranch and manage 100 employees.
(d) Shoot like a man.

2. When Venters takes Bess to Surprise Valley, she awakens and think she hears a waterfall. What is she really hearing?
(a) The wind in the valley.
(b) The stream running through the valley.
(c) Ancient voices.
(d) Shooting in the distance.

3. Venters has two dogs. What are their names?
(a) Whitie and Lassiter.
(b) Oldring and Whitie.
(c) Jane and Ring.
(d) Ring and Whitie.

4. What are the signs that Milly gave up the Mormon religion?
(a) Her headstone has no Mormon symbols.
(b) She told Jane she gave up the religion.
(c) She quit teaching and fought against Mormon ways of raising a girl.
(d) She taught in a Gentile school.

5. When Jane asks Lassiter to stay and eat, why does Lassiter hesitate?
(a) He won't like Jane's cooking.
(b) He knows that the Mormons won't like it and will cause trouble for Jane.
(c) He never eats indoors.
(d) He is shy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Lassiter wants to go home? Where is home for Lassiter?

2. Why does Jane not take care of Milly's grave?

3. Why did Milly die?

4. When Jane sees the visitor at the Brandt house, why does this person think Jane has not been to church?

5. When Bishop Dyer appears at Jane's house, why is he upset?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Jane's one lone defender when Tull begins to pressure Jane into marriage? How can one person help Jane? Is defending Jane a job that requires more people?

2. How does Venters find the openings to the canyons? How does he find Oldring's den?

3. Who was Milly Erne and why did she refuse to teach at the school? What impact did this have on Milly's life?

4. Venters wonders if Oldring is Mormon. What effect would that have on the story?

5. As Bess tells Venters of her relationship with Oldring, does she seem haunted? What about her past does not match with the girl that Venters is getting to know? Is Venters having trouble seeing both sides of Bess? Are there two sides to Bess?

6. While exploring for the first time, Venters finds evidence of beavers in Surprise Valley and realizes that he must find the the stream where they entered. Why does Venters need to see the where the stream enters Surprise Valley? What is he afraid of?

7. How did Jane's father make his wealth? What did he own that others needed? How has Jane changed that legacy and what effect has the change had on the people of Cottonwoods?

8. Mrs. Larkin would like for Fay to be raised by Jane, but without Mormon teachings. According to the story, what is Mrs. Larkin really afraid of for her little Fay if she is raised Mormon?

9. When Venters carries Bess up the pass to the hidden valley, he experiences a new strength. What is this strength? What is the source of Venters strength?

10. Compare the entrance to Surprise Valley under the stone bridge and the entrance to the ancient cave dwellers up the steep steps. How are these the same and how are they different? What did they mean to the ancient peoples and how are they important to Venters and Bess?

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