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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 Rowena hear about Adam Fiske?
(a) That he is dying.
(b) That water suddenly appears on his farm.
(c) That his farm has burned up.
(d) That his father has left them.

2. What is happening to the valley?
(a) It is getting huge sinkholes.
(b) It is drying out.
(c) It is filling with water.
(d) The trees are getting water logged and falling over.

3. What is Stew Meat about to do at the opening to the Epilogue?
(a) Restock the shelves.
(b) Go to sleep.
(c) Take his wife home.
(d) Close his shop for the night.

4. What does Stew Meat realize?
(a) That Adam, Polly and Rowena are in a bad place.
(b) That Adam, Polly and Rowena are deluded.
(c) That he was wise not to use his card.
(d) That Adam, Polly and Rowena just want him to miss out on using his card for himself.

5. What does Sam suggest they do for Henry?
(a) Leave him alone to sulk.
(b) Notify his parents of his situation.
(c) Make him more comfortable.
(d) Feed him some fertilizer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Henry demand Rowena do?

2. What does Rowena say to Sam about Henry?

3. What is happening to the ceiling when Adam wakes?

4. About what is Adam unhappy?

5. What does Rowena tell Sam and Henry?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Adam's pa make a raft and what do they do with the raft?

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

3. What does Adam promise his mother and what does this promise prompt Adam to do?

4. What does Sam say about Henry's stories?

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

6. What do Rowena's parents hear and then learn when they investigate?

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

8. How does Rowena learn the truth about Henry's actions to her when he would visit Rowena's pa?

9. What does one of the townspeople who come to see what is happening at Adam's family's farm say that causes Adam to feel guilty?

10. What surprises Adam and his mother?

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