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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. In what year does the federal government promise to pay the Sioux Indians for their land?
(a) 1861.
(b) 1837.
(c) 1899.
(d) 1901.

2. What does Karl get from Klas Albert in exchange for his daughter?
(a) A kerosene lamp.
(b) A vacuum cleaner.
(c) A map.
(d) A harness.

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

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

5. Who is the U.S. President who grants a reprieve to 265 of the Sioux Indians sentenced to death?
(a) Andrew Johnson.
(b) Theodore Roosevelt.
(c) Andrew Jackson.
(d) Abraham Lincoln.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which one of Karl's son's works for the railroad?

2. What do the Sioux Indians take from Sven's farm after the massacre?

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

4. What seems to bother Karl as he watches over Kristina?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Ulrika upset at her son's choice of occupation?

2. How many Sioux Indians did President Lincoln pardon, and how did the remaining 38 behave on the way to the gallows?

3. What is Karl's perspective on God since he has sustained his injury?

4. Why does Karl not evacuate to town when the other settlers are doing so?

5. Why does Karl decide to send wheat back to Sweden and why does he send his best crop?

6. How does Karl behave in the years after Kristina's death?

7. What is the toll on the settlers during the Sioux Indian war?

8. How does Karl embarrass his sons sometimes when he speaks now that he is older?

9. Which of Karl and Kristina's relatives are killed in the first Indian attack, and who is the only one to survive?

10. Why do the Sioux Indians initiate war against the white settlers?

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