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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. Why does Adam have to go down to the river regularly?
(a) To work on a dam he is building to divert water to the fields.
(b) To collect river rocks to build a pool.
(c) To fish for his family's meals.
(d) To haul water.

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

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

4. About what does Mrs. Jervice remind Rowena?
(a) Going with her dad to the park.
(b) A party.
(c) Taking her little brother to the park.
(d) Going to the zoo the next day.

5. What does Adam finally decide to do about the situation at home?
(a) Use Blinn's card.
(b) Refuse to work anymore.
(c) Ask his pa to build a new well.
(d) Leave home.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are two people who taunt Adam as he is driving the wagon?

2. What does Henry demand Rowena do?

3. What does Adam promise his mother to do?

4. What does Rowena wonder about Polly?

5. What does Adam's mother think when Adam tells her his discovery?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Adam's father say about Uncle Poot and what is Adam's response?

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

4. 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?

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

6. What does Adam hear as he is going to bed and what does his pa say about it?

7. How are Polly and Rowena described when Adam goes to school the next day?

8. What does Sam say he's been doing in the library and with what result?

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

10. What surprises Adam and his mother?

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