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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. In what year did Leona and John get married?
(a) 1922.
(b) 1928.
(c) 1931.
(d) 1925.

2. What is the age difference between Edith and her brother?
(a) Four years.
(b) Two years.
(c) Fourteen months.
(d) Seven years.

3. What was Leona's surname?
(a) Barker Newcomb.
(b) Fisher Newcomb.
(c) Quincy Newcomb.
(d) Turner Newcomb.

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

5. What was the name of the local tavern?
(a) The Big Hill Tavern.
(b) The Holt Tavern.
(c) McNally's Tavern.
(d) Crabtree Tavern.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Edith refuse John's proposal?

2. How old was John Roscoe when the Goodnoughs took residence near his home?

3. How did Edith feel when John proposed to her?

4. What did John see when he ordered Sandy to stop the truck in Chapter 6?

5. What does Sandy say is the reason Edith and Lyman never left the family farm?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Roy Goodnough described in the first three chapters of the book?

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

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

4. What did Wenzel Gerdts tell John about Lyman?

5. How did Roy try to manipulate his daughter into refusing John's proposal?

6. Why did Edith keep gum in her apron pockets?

7. What happened to Ada in 1914, and how did Roy seem to feel about it?

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

9. Where did Lyman go after leaving Holt?

10. How did Lyman stay in touch with Edith after leaving her behind on the farm?

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