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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Karl's home parish?
(a) Ljuder.
(b) Varberg.
(c) Karlstad.
(d) Hassleholm.

2. What is Karl's last name?
(a) Svensson.
(b) Nilsson.
(c) Nyland.
(d) Nyberg.

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

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

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

6. What intermittent noise is heard in Karl and Kristina's house as he watches over her?
(a) The church bell.
(b) A clock.
(c) Sioux warrior cries.
(d) The children's singing.

7. On whom does the last oak tree fall?
(a) Jonas.
(b) Karl.
(c) Johan.
(d) Nils.

8. Ulrika shows Karl an article about an immigrant from Ljuder who has presented a/an _________________ to the village church.
(a) bridal crown.
(b) shipment of candles.
(c) shipment of Bibles.
(d) organ.

9. How many days does it take for Kristina's delirium to break?
(a) 14.
(b) 11.
(c) 6.
(d) 3.

10. What does Karl decide to send to his home parish during the famine?
(a) A load of wheat.
(b) A load of peanuts.
(c) A load of corn.
(d) A load of soybeans.

11. What seems to bother Karl as he watches over Kristina?
(a) That her fever will not go down.
(b) That she no longer recognizes him.
(c) That she will not wake up.
(d) That her extremities are going numb.

12. Which one of Karl's sons works for a timber company?
(a) Erik.
(b) Jakob.
(c) Owen.
(d) Frank.

13. Who is Karl angry with regarding Kristina's death?
(a) Kristina.
(b) God.
(c) The doctor.
(d) The midwife.

14. What is Kristina suffering through at the beginning of Chapter XIII?
(a) Depression.
(b) Scarlet Fever.
(c) Another miscarriage.
(d) Influenza.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. If Kristina had not miscarried, this child would have been her ______________ one.

2. What do the rich steal during the famine causing many poor children to die?

3. Who pays for the freight and deliver of the food Karl ships back home?

4. What is the nature of Kristina's illness?

5. What makes Karl forget about the Sioux Indian scare for periods of time?

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