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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Karl discover about the turnips that he goes to get?
(a) They are rotten.
(b) They are fine.
(c) They are gone.
(d) They have sprouted.

2. What does Karl say in the letter about Christmas?
(a) His kids were spoiled with their presents.
(b) He plans to visit Sweden at Christmas.
(c) It was very poor that year.
(d) He took the whole day off from work.

3. What does Kristina notice when Karl is leaving for Taylor Falls?
(a) Her son is flushed.
(b) The red sun.
(c) The horse is limping slightly.
(d) Karl is limping.

4. What does Karl say about their food supply?
(a) They usually have a surfeit to sell at market.
(b) They have sufficient food to feed their family.
(c) The sometimes are short, but not too often.
(d) They are always short and the children are often hungry.

5. What does Ulrika tell Kristina about an American husband?
(a) An American husband would make more money.
(b) He would not help her with woman's work.
(c) He would do some of her chores.
(d) An American husband would have to go to the army.

6. What does the person in question #54 do about being homesick?
(a) Works hard to save enough money to return.
(b) Drink too much alcohol.
(c) Talks incessantly about the homeland.
(d) Writes letters home every week.

7. With whom does Kristina know she will not be close friends?
(a) Ulrika.
(b) Chloe.
(c) Judit.
(d) Claudia.

8. Who decided to try to make a fortune on gold in California?
(a) Robert.
(b) Hans.
(c) Petrus.
(d) Peter.

9. What does Karl continue to track over the years?
(a) His yearly harvests.
(b) His yearly taxes.
(c) His children's growth.
(d) His brother's whereabouts.

10. What is one of the inventions the newspaper writes about?
(a) Telegraph.
(b) Steam powered automobile.
(c) Refridgerator.
(d) Telephone.

11. Why is Karl going to Taylor Falls?
(a) To buy spring seeds.
(b) To have his millet ground.
(c) To have his grain milled.
(d) To purchase a new plow.

12. What has Kristina obtained with Ulrika's help?
(a) A horse.
(b) A spinning wheel.
(c) A mule.
(d) A sewing machine.

13. What stops Karl on his way to Danjel's house?
(a) Part of the road becomes a sinkhole.
(b) A man is lying on the roadside.
(c) His wagon gets stuck in the mud.
(d) A tree falls across the road.

14. What does Kristina sometimes feel disappointed about when she wakes in the morning?
(a) She is not pregnant.
(b) She has to get up and start the day.
(c) She is in America.
(d) She is not able to cook the big breakfasts like they had in the old country.

15. About what does Petrus start talking?
(a) That Petrus' wife is expecting their first child.
(b) That Karl should have buried the turnips in a shallower ditch.
(c) About the death of his only child to diphtheria.
(d) About the crops he is planting at home.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lydia ask about in her letter to Karl?

2. What gift does Ulrika give Kristina?

3. What does Petrus say about Indian Corn?

4. Why was Petrus punished in Sweden?

5. To whom does Karl write a letter at the end of Chapter 11?

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