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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's father refuse to do?
(a) Get water from a spring on a neighboring farm.
(b) Let Adam go to school.
(c) Built a holding pond for rain water.
(d) Let Adam consult a well digger about a new well.

2. What kind of tree is Henry?
(a) Pine.
(b) Sycamore.
(c) Oak.
(d) Dogwood.

3. Where does the Epilogue open?
(a) Adam's family farm.
(b) Stew Meat's Store.
(c) By Henry in the woods.
(d) At school.

4. What does Adam doubt about Uncle Poot?
(a) That he can build a better dam than Adam.
(b) That he really knows anything about engineering.
(c) That he can actually dowse for water.
(d) That he will arrive this time since he did not last time.

5. What is Henry's condition when Rowena checks on him after getting home?
(a) He seems dead.
(b) The bark and leaves are dropping off.
(c) He is almost a tree.
(d) He is completely a tree.

Short Answer Questions

1. What business does Adam take up?

2. What is Adam, Polly and Rowena's mental state?

3. What does Adam finally decide to do about the situation at home?

4. What does Rowena mutter when Adam sits behind her in class?

5. What does Rowena wonder about Polly?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What does Stew Meat realize and what does he do?

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

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