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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters VII - VIII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is wrong with the windmill mentioned at the beginning of Chapter II?
(a) It is always spinning too fast and causes fear that it will fly off.
(b) It long ago detached itself and serves no purpose but to squeak and annoy neighbors.
(c) It will not turn, therefore it does not serve any purpose.
(d) It is facing the wrong way, so it can never catch the wind.

2. How many steers do the Burbank brothers drive into town in this first chapter of the book?
(a) 1,500.
(b) 10,000.
(c) 500.
(d) 1,000.

3. What is left of the foreign dryland farmers’ futile attempts?
(a) Barbed wire and abandoned sheds.
(b) Ruts in the ground.
(c) Lost cattle.
(d) Empty wells.

4. Why does Rose want more guests besides the Governor and his wife at the party?
(a) She hopes to impress the neighbors.
(b) She enjoys large parties.
(c) She wants to make friends.
(d) She hopes to hide amid the crowd.

5. How does Chapter II begin?
(a) The narrator describes the Gordon family.
(b) The narrator describes the wild west in which the story takes place.
(c) The narrator describes the winds that blow through the town of Beech.
(d) The narrator describes Phil and his brother, George.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Peter feel at his new school and boarding house?

2. How does the Governor’s wife feel about Rose and the Burbanks?

3. What is the relationship between Phil and George?

4. How do both George and Rose change, regarding supper?

5. How do the townspeople of Beech react to the coming of the Burbank cattle drive?

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