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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 someone say about how the water problem might have been caused?
(a) The dam upriver has sprung a leak.
(b) The reservoir has overflowed.
(c) Floods from melting snow.
(d) Magic.

2. What does Sam find near Henry?
(a) A letter from a lawyer.
(b) A bag of gold.
(c) Henry's briefcase.
(d) A bag of cookies.

3. What does Pa say when he comes in from the cornfield?
(a) That the crows ate most of the corn.
(b) That mice are numerous in the corn field.
(c) That the corn has withered up.
(d) That a hole Pa dug spouted water.

4. Who is Uncle Poot?
(a) Polly's uncle who is an engineer.
(b) A dowser.
(c) Adam's favorite uncle.
(d) A dam expert.

5. What does Rowena mutter when Adam sits behind her in class?
(a) That Henry deserves his fate.
(b) That Polly is the cause of her problems.
(c) That Adam better be a lucky boy if he uses his card.
(d) Something about stuck feet.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Adam decide to try?

2. What does Henry demand Rowena do?

3. What does Pa do with some barrels and wood from the hen house?

4. What do Adam and his father do with the excess water?

5. What is happening to the valley?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How do the three young people turn out?

3. What does Rowena suggest looking for and what does Sam say about that?

4. What does Rowena hear about Adam at a party and what is her thought about it?

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

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

7. What does Adam start doing for his mother and how does he frighten himself?

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

9. What does Sam bring back for Henry and what does he say when Rowena tells Sam about what Henry said to her?

10. What point of view is used in the Epilogue and who is the narrator?

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