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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. How often will Russell have to take down and clean the stovepipe to make restitution for the fire?
(a) Every 2 weeks.
(b) Once a week.
(c) Every 20 school days.
(d) Every ten school days.

2. What type of peaches does Glenn bring for Tansy?
(a) Yellow Crawfords.
(b) Early Amber.
(c) Babcock.
(d) Elberta.

3. How long does Charlie's hand have to remain in a bandage?
(a) December.
(b) Halloween.
(c) Thanksgiving.
(d) October.

4. What Roosevelt child does Tansy say keeps a garter snake?
(a) Ethel.
(b) Theodore, Junior.
(c) Kermit.
(d) Alice.

5. What arithmetic book does Tansy have from the high school that she studies in the evenings?
(a) Stoddard's Rudiments of Arithmetic.
(b) Ray's New Practical Arithmetic.
(c) Topical Advanced Arithmetic.
(d) The Western Calculator.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many cuttings of hay does Mr. Culver believe he can get from the first bottomlands?

2. How old might scholars be who come back for more schooling, especially when they learn you have to know how to sign your name?

3. How many bushels of corn can Mr. Culver shuck in a day?

4. How far is the trip to Montezuma?

5. What covers a table on the Tarboxes porch?

Short Essay Questions

1. What goes on on Halloween?

2. Why might there be students in their 20s at a one-room school like Hominy Ridge?

3. Who helps Russell with J.W. when J.W. encounters a porcupine?

4. What does Tansy do when Charlie and Glenn start fighting?

5. Why does Mr. Culver think Eugene Hammond is behind the news article about the accident with the Culver's buggy and Eugene's automobile?

6. How is Aunt Fanny Hamline gotten out of the ditch at the school?

7. What does Tansy make Russell do because he and Charlie left the burning buggy whip in the weeds by the privy?

8. What does Glenn have for lunch when he starts attending school?

9. Where is Glenn living in Chapter 15 and why?

10. How does Little Britches help Tansy with Spelling School and learn her letters?

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