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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 did Roy hate about harvest time?
(a) It was when town was overrun with tourists.
(b) Harvest time meant winter was coming.
(c) He and his children couldn't do it on their own.
(d) The labor was back-breaking.

2. What does the reporter ask Sandy in regards to the Goodnough fire?
(a) Whether Sandy had set it.
(b) Whether it was arson.
(c) Whether it destroyed the whole house.
(d) Whether it was deliberate.

3. Why did Edith say John wouldn't sunburn?
(a) He stayed out of the sun.
(b) He came up with a sun-blocking cream.
(c) He had Indian heritage.
(d) He always wore a long-sleeve shirt.

4. How many years are said to have passed without anything of note happening to the Goodnoughs?
(a) Fifteen years.
(b) Ten years.
(c) Five years.
(d) Twenty years.

5. Who did John meet outside the hardware store?
(a) Bud Sealy.
(b) Roy.
(c) Edith.
(d) Wenzel Gerdts.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Roy said to have constantly done to Lyman?

2. What event occurred in 1941?

3. What were Roy's hands said to look like after the cutting machine accident?

4. What did Edith keep in her apron pocket?

5. In which season did Edith and John begin dating?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did John suspect that the barbed wire may be Roy's and not his own?

2. What did Wenzel Gerdts tell John about Lyman?

3. What complaint did Roy make about John in Chapter 3?

4. How did Ada and Hannah become friends?

5. What did the doctor do to help Roy, and what was the lasting effect of his accident?

6. What does the reporter ask Sandy, which prompts Sandy to kick him off his land?

7. On what condition did Roy allow John and Edith to date?

8. What does Sandy say about the article that the Denver Post publishes?

9. How did Ada and Roy come to live in Colorado?

10. Who approaches Sandy Roscoe at the beginning of the book, and why?

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