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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 causes a great influx of Swedish immigrants to Lake Chisago?
(a) The lure of good jobs.
(b) High taxes in Sweden.
(c) Lonely relatives.
(d) The famine in Sweden.

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

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

4. Who pays for the freight and deliver of the food Karl ships back home?
(a) Sven.
(b) Klas.
(c) Owen.
(d) Erik.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the Sioux Indians begin killing white settlers?

2. What has Karl never regretted in his life?

3. How many coffins has Karl built in his life for family members?

4. How many white settlers are left homeless from the Sioux Indian war?

5. Karl is happy that he had sent ______________ to his home parish in Sweden.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. How does Ulrika reveal to Karl that she donated the bridal crown to the village church?

10. How does the changing Indian cliff serve as a metaphor for the sorrows of the Sioux Indians?

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