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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the greatest number of settlers killed by the Sioux in one day?
(a) 400.
(b) 50.
(c) 100.
(d) 130.

2. What name had Karl given to his farm originally?
(a) New Kramfors.
(b) New Djursholm.
(c) New Kristinehamm.
(d) New Duvemala.

3. Karl's home parish is suffering its worst crop failure in __________________.
(a) over 100 years.
(b) fifty years.
(c) ten years.
(d) thirty-five years.

4. What year is it when Karl yields his largest crop?
(a) 1846.
(b) 1901.
(c) 1899.
(d) 1868.

5. How many children does Ulrika have?
(a) 1.
(b) 8.
(c) 2.
(d) 4.

6. What does Ulrika secretly wonder about Karl when she sees him?
(a) If he has reconciled with God.
(b) If he is happy.
(c) If he will ever marry again.
(d) If he is healthy.

7. Where is Klas and Marta's home located?
(a) Center City.
(b) Boden.
(c) Mankato.
(d) Orion.

8. What is the name of the battle where U.S. soldiers fight the Sioux Indians on August 18, 1862?
(a) Battle of Redwood.
(b) Battle of Great Oak.
(c) Battle of Hopewell.
(d) Battle of Orion Springs.

9. What is the possible reason that Karl and Kristina are not attacked by the Sioux Indians?
(a) Karl had been kind to the Indians when they needed food.
(b) The Sioux won't bother attacking for just two people.
(c) Their farm is hidden away and out of the Sioux territory.
(d) Karl has not been working and the farm looks deserted.

10. Why are there so few men who can help fight against the Sioux Indians?
(a) Some men take their families and move away.
(b) Many men are off fighting in the Civil War.
(c) Many men want to protect their own farms.
(d) Some men have religious objections to it.

11. Karl will never forgive God for ____________________.
(a) taking Kristina from him.
(b) his leg injury.
(c) the Sioux Indian war.
(d) the Civil War.

12. Back in Sweden, Ulrika was known as the parish _______________.
(a) cook.
(b) teacher.
(c) whore.
(d) maid.

13. Who comes to Karl's house to chastise him for his carnal appetites which ultimately killed his wife?
(a) Ana.
(b) Samuel.
(c) Birgit.
(d) Ulrika.

14. Which of the following is NOT a topic included in the letter Karl sends to his sister?
(a) The assassination of President Lincoln.
(b) The capture of Lincoln's assassin.
(c) The Sioux Indian war.
(d) The victory of the Union army.

15. In what town were the condemned Sioux Indians hanged in 1862?
(a) Hopewell.
(b) Orion.
(c) Minneapolis.
(d) Mankato.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the homestead act which encouraged Swedish people to immigrate to Minnesota?

2. In what year does the federal government promise to pay the Sioux Indians for their land?

3. Why does Karl refuse to leave his farm?

4. Karl builds a coffin for Kristina with boards that had been intended for what?

5. Kristina tells Karl that she dreamed she was in ___________________.

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