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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 do Adam and his father do with the excess water?
(a) Put it in tanks.
(b) Let it lie in the pond.
(c) Channel it away from the fields.
(d) They do not know what to do.

2. What happens when Adam and Pa load the cookstove to take it away from the valley?
(a) It burns Adam's hands.
(b) It causes the wood to catch fire on the raft.
(c) It breaks the raft.
(d) It breaks apart when the water hits its hot surface.

3. What is Pa trying to keep safe?
(a) The tool shed.
(b) The barn.
(c) The chicken coop.
(d) The corn fields.

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

5. 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 a hole Pa dug spouted water.
(d) That the corn has withered up.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Rowena's parents hear about the same time that Adam, Polly and Rowena are at Stew Meat's store?

2. What does Adam promise his mother to do?

3. How does Adam's Pa react to the wish Adam made?

4. What is happening to the valley?

5. What do Stew Meat, Adam, Polly and Rowena realize?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What surprises Adam and his mother?

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

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

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

7. What does Rowena tell Henry and Sam and what is Henry's response?

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

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

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

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