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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 is the possible reason that Karl and Kristina are not attacked by the Sioux Indians?
(a) The Sioux won't bother attacking for just two people.
(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) Karl has not been working and the farm looks deserted.

2. Karl is happy that he had sent ______________ to his home parish in Sweden.
(a) soybeans.
(b) wheat.
(c) corn.
(d) spices.

3. What disappoints Karl about Marta's wedding?
(a) He doesn't like her husband.
(b) The wedding was too expensive.
(c) The engagement was too short.
(d) Marta did not hug him when she left.

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

5. What do the rich steal during the famine causing many poor children to die?
(a) Cheese.
(b) Rice.
(c) Apples.
(d) Breast milk.

Short Answer Questions

1. What seems to serve as a symbol of the Sioux's uprising in the La Croix Valley?

2. How many white settlers are killed in the Sioux Indian war?

3. What is conscription?

4. What causes a great influx of Swedish immigrants to Lake Chisago?

5. Why are there so few men who can help fight against the Sioux Indians?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What item does Klas Albert convince Karl to buy, and what benefit does it bring to Karl's family?

7. What occurs to exaggerate Karl's anxiety while Kristina is ill?

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

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

10. What does Karl think about the coffins he has built in his life as he builds Kristina's coffin?

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