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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. At the wedding, Jonas Petter tells a story about what?
(a) His boyhood.
(b) A surrogate father.
(c) The blizzard of '35.
(d) The Civil War.

2. Back in Sweden, Ulrika was known as the parish _______________.
(a) teacher.
(b) whore.
(c) cook.
(d) maid.

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

4. What seems to serve as a symbol of the Sioux's uprising in the La Croix Valley?
(a) The black clouds.
(b) The Rocky Mountains.
(c) The Indian cliff.
(d) The La Croix River.

5. What has Karl never regretted in his life?
(a) Serving in the army.
(b) Leaving college.
(c) Emigrating from Sweden.
(d) Marrying Ulrika.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kristina dream she is doing in her dream?

2. In what month is Karl's oak stand cleared?

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

4. The gold promised to the Sioux Indians in 1861 finally arrives at _______________ in August of 1862.

5. What name had Karl given to his farm originally?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What is Ulrika's true reason for giving the bridal crown to the village church?

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