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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 readers are Tansy and Little Britches laying out when Glenn joins the students in Chapter 10?
(a) Primer, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd.
(b) Primer, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th.
(c) 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th.
(d) 1st, 2nd, and 3rd.

2. Who owns the crop that nearly burned with the privy?
(a) Aunt Fanny Hamline.
(b) Mr. Leadill.
(c) Old Man Lichtenberger.
(d) Mr. Cooper.

3. In Chapter 14, where does Eugene take Russell, Lloyd, and Charlie for a drive?
(a) Church.
(b) Neighbor's house.
(c) Montezuma.
(d) Schoolhouse.

4. What is the salary for the threshing season in the Dakotas?
(a) $14 a week.
(b) $22 a week.
(c) $26 a week.
(d) $17 a week.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the first to smell smoke on the first day of school?

2. What do Russell and his father do on Saturday in Chapter 13?

3. What type of peaches does Glenn bring for Tansy?

4. What Roosevelt child does Tansy say keeps a garter snake?

5. Who throws Aunt Fanny Hamline's cane when she keeps trying to whack her rescuers with it?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the Tarbox place like when Tansy and Russell arrive?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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