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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 does Adam learn from his father as he goes to bed?
(a) The water seems to be slowing.
(b) Water is coming in the basement.
(c) The water is almost to the top of the basement.
(d) The townspeople are trying to help build a sandbag wall.

2. What do Adam, Polly and Rowena want when the come into Stew Meat's store?
(a) Some groceries.
(b) His help.
(c) Advice.
(d) Charity for Adam's family who have been rendered homeless.

3. Why is Rowena unable to go anywhere?
(a) She has sprained her ankle.
(b) She is embarrassed about Henry.
(c) She has to take care of Henry.
(d) She is ill.

4. What is Henry's condition when Rowena checks on him after getting home?
(a) He seems dead.
(b) He is completely a tree.
(c) The bark and leaves are dropping off.
(d) He is almost a tree.

5. What does Adam promise his mother to do?
(a) Help her set up a flower garden.
(b) Be nicer to his young cousin who is staying with them.
(c) Work harder in school.
(d) Be nicer to his youngest brother who sometimes pesters Adam.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the fields by that night?

2. What does Sam say when Rowena asks him to wait until she returns?

3. About what is Adam unhappy?

4. What does Sam find near Henry?

5. What happens when Polly speaks sharply?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Henry when Rowena returns from the party?

2. What happens when Polly becomes desperate?

3. What will happen eventually if the water does not stop flowing?

4. What greets Adam when he wakes the next morning?

5. What does Adam do after school and how do Eunice and Agatha and others treat him?

6. What does Adam hear about the well on his family's farm and what does he suggest to his pa about the situation?

7. What does Stew Meat realize and what does he do?

8. What surprises Adam and his mother?

9. What does Stew Meat say happens just as he is closing his store?

10. What does Adam's ma tell him when he goes down to breakfast?

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