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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do they hire on to help with in Mario's train?
(a) Repairing wagons.
(b) Helping with the mules.
(c) Cooking and laundry.
(d) Hired guns.

2. What does Robert decide to do when two mules have escaped?
(a) Go back to sleep.
(b) Go after them.
(c) Tell Mario.
(d) Send Arvid after them.

3. Where does Karl go when he leaves the house?
(a) To find Johan.
(b) Into town.
(c) To work on the school house.
(d) To the north field.

4. What does Arvid tell Robert about Minnesota one night?
(a) He wants to return there.
(b) It is warmer in St. Louis than Minnesota.
(c) He never wants to go back.
(d) He is worried about his wife and child left there.

5. What kind of things would Karl like to use the cash to buy?
(a) A new house.
(b) Oxen and farm implements.
(c) A trip back to Sweden.
(d) Clothes for the family.

6. What has Kristina ordered the children to do?
(a) Stay away from the lake.
(b) Get the laundry hung out.
(c) Follow Robert.
(d) Pull the weeds in the vegetable garden.

7. What does Robert ask Karl?
(a) That Karl help him return to Sweden.
(b) That Karl buy Kristina something nice.
(c) That Karl leave him in peace.
(d) That Karl bury him in the new cemetery.

8. How is Robert dressed when Karl sees him?
(a) He has a cavalry uniform on.
(b) Shabbily.
(c) Normal for him.
(d) Very well.

9. Why was Karl late returning from Stillwater?
(a) He had trouble with the ox cart.
(b) He was ill.
(c) He had to wait for the bank to check on his question about the money.
(d) He ran into some friends from Sweden.

10. What does Kristina hear while she is working?
(a) The dog barking.
(b) The children screaming.
(c) Someone knocking on the door.
(d) Robert and Karl fighting.

11. What does Kristina notice when Robert returns to the house?
(a) He is limping.
(b) He seens very depressed.
(c) He is having a difficult time hearing.
(d) He no longer has Arvid's watch.

12. What does Robert say about his ear?
(a) It is fine.
(b) It bleeds all the time.
(c) It talks to him at night.
(d) It hurts him immensely.

13. What do Robert and Arvid realize when morning comes?
(a) The mules have returned.
(b) They are lost.
(c) The mules are dead by the water.
(d) Mario has been looking for them.

14. What does Karl do when he gets in a fight with Robert about the money?
(a) He kicks Robert out.
(b) He strikes Robert in the face.
(c) He pushes Robert into the wall.
(d) He walks away before he says something he might regret.

15. What does Kristina immediately ask Robert?
(a) What happened to leg.
(b) If Arvid has come also.
(c) If he is hungry.
(d) What happened to his face.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Karl feel when he sees Robert?

2. What did Robert's ear begin to do in St. Louis?

3. What does Robert do after Arvid dies?

4. Why does Robert leave Grand City?

5. What does Kristina think about the money?

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