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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. The gold promised to the Sioux Indians in 1861 finally arrives at _______________ in August of 1862.
(a) Fort Hopewell.
(b) Fort Recovery.
(c) Fort Ridgely.
(d) Fort Dalton.

2. What upsets Kristina when she awakens from her comatose state?
(a) The house is a mess.
(b) Karl has not been sleeping.
(c) It is raining in a window.
(d) The children are hungry.

3. Why does Karl refuse to leave his farm?
(a) Because he thinks he can fight the Sioux himself.
(b) Because he has a cow about to deliver a calf.
(c) Because Kristina can't be moved.
(d) Because he thinks God will save him.

4. How much did the item in #153 cost?
(a) $1,500.
(b) $900.
(c) $75.
(d) $100.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which one of Karl's daughters wants to marry Klas?

2. Ulrika shows Karl an article about an immigrant from Ljuder who has presented a/an _________________ to the village church.

3. What is Whitsuntide?

4. What food does Sven prepare to give to the Sioux who come to his farm?

5. Who is Miss Skalrud?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Karl learn about why Klas Albert had paid for the wheat shipment back to Sweden?

2. What is the reason that so many people emigrate to Lake Chisago from Sweden

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

4. What are Karl's feelings about God after the death of Kristina?

5. What is confirmed about Kristina's illness when she has abdominal pain and bleeding again?

6. What food does Karl give to Kristina and how does Karl know that Kristina is dead?

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

8. What injury does Karl sustain that will plague him for the rest of his life?

9. What is the state of Kristina's health after three days and how does she behave that frightens Karl?

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

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