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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 notice at four neighboring farms?
(a) Lights going on.
(b) They are all willing to help Adam andhis family.
(c) They are having the same problem as Adam's family.
(d) They are gearing up to help harvest the corn from Adam's family's fields.

2. What is happening to the ceiling when Adam wakes?
(a) It is leaking.
(b) Nothing.
(c) It is changing colors.
(d) It is falling down.

3. What is the situation when Adam wakes the next morning?
(a) His parents are in a boat tied the front porch.
(b) His father has driven the wagon out of the valley.
(c) The water has all receded.
(d) The house is surrounded by water.

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

5. What does Adam's mother say when he tries to tell his parents about his wish?
(a) She tells Adam it is not his fault.
(b) She tells Adam the flood is all his fault.
(c) She tells Adam that he can not go to college now since they have probably lost the farm.
(d) She tells Adam to be quiet.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is the first person narrator in the Epilogue?

3. What do Adam's parents realize?

4. What does Rowena hear about Adam Fiske?

5. What kind of tree is Henry?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What surprises Adam and his mother?

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

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

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

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

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

9. What happens when Polly becomes desperate?

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

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