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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. What pranks do Lloyd, Flopears, and Lester play on Halloween?
(a) Take wheels off wagons.
(b) Steal gates.
(c) Let pigs out.
(d) Put road apples into people's mailboxes.

2. What does Charlie break during the fight with Glenn?
(a) Thumb.
(b) Nose.
(c) Hand.
(d) Finger.

3. Who accidentally throws a ball and hits Charlie?
(a) Russell.
(b) Glenn.
(c) Lester..
(d) Flopears.

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

5. From what catalog does Tansy want the students to bring a map?
(a) Blue Book.
(b) Strawbridge & Clothier.
(c) Montgomery Ward.
(d) Sears.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 14, where does Eugene take Russell, Lloyd, and Charlie for a drive?

2. In Chapter 15, who is Glenn boarding with?

3. How does Russell plan to get to the Dakotas?

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

5. What does Glenn have for lunch at school?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What is going on when Russell, his father, and Lloyd come to the house and hear music?

5. What happens to J.W. at the Tarbox place?

6. What does Tansy tell Russell to do for J.W. when they get home and why?

7. What plans does Russell make for him and Charlie to go to the Dakotas?

8. How well does Eugene Hammond do at the hog butchering?

9. What does Eugene Hammond send to the school in Chapter 13?

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

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