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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 are Large Marge and Mr. Walker doing when Leni returns home in Chapter 12?
(a) Reading.
(b) Watching television.
(c) Playing cards.
(d) Sewing a quilt.

2. Who is playing buckets as bongo drums at the barbecue in Chapter 5?
(a) Large Marge.
(b) Tom Walker.
(c) Mad Earl.
(d) Eckhart Walker.

3. Why does Ernt become violent toward Cora in Chapter 9?
(a) Because she let Leni go on a date.
(b) Because she let dinner burn.
(c) Because she told him she's leaving.
(d) Because she was flirting with Tom

4. What is Large Marge's last name?
(a) Birdsall.
(b) Wallace.
(c) Watkins.
(d) Anderson.

5. How much money per hour does Tom Walker offer to the townspeople of Kaneq to work on rebuilding the saloon?
(a) $6.
(b) $10.
(c) $2.
(d) $4.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many of every 1,000 Alaskans go missing each year, according to Large Marge in Chapter 3?

2. What did Leni and her mother tend to while living in a commune, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?

3. What do Leni and her family eat at a restaurant on the beach when they camp on the Spit in Chapter 3?

4. Who is the bartender at the Kicking Moose Saloon after Geneva's funeral?

5. Where is the town meeting held in Chapter 12?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Ernt become violent after Geneva's funeral? What does he do?

2. Who is Large Marge? What impressions are imparted on the reader regarding her character when she is first introduced?

3. Where does Matthew move in Chapter 10? Why?

4. What is the reason for the vandalism that is discovered during Salmon Days? Who is responsible?

5. How do the Allbrights reach their destination in Chapters 3 and 4?

6. How is Leni described when her character is introduced in the beginning of the novel?

7. How does Ernt behave toward Cora and Leni in the morning after his violent explosion in Chapter 10? How do they respond?

8. How has the Allbright household changed from the ending of Part 1 to the opening of Part 2?

9. How is Leni's first successful hunt described? What does she kill?

10. How is Leni's school described in Chapter 5? Who are her classmates?

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