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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 Pa do when the people of Coven Tree arrive to help?
(a) Tells them what needs to be done.
(b) Refuses their aid.
(c) Cries in gratitude.
(d) Yells at them.

2. What does Stew Meat realize?
(a) That he was wise not to use his card.
(b) That Adam, Polly and Rowena are deluded.
(c) That Adam, Polly and Rowena are in a bad place.
(d) That Adam, Polly and Rowena just want him to miss out on using his card for himself.

3. What is Stew Meat about to do at the opening to the Epilogue?
(a) Go to sleep.
(b) Restock the shelves.
(c) Take his wife home.
(d) Close his shop for the night.

4. Why does Henry say he used to be so sweet to Rowena?
(a) Because she reminds him of his dead sweetheart.
(b) So her father would buy more machinery from Henry.
(c) Because she reminds him of his sister.
(d) Because she was so nice to him.

5. What does Adam decide to try?
(a) Digging a really deep hole to search for water.
(b) Using Uncle Poot's dowsing stick.
(c) Making the holes further apart so he does not need to dig so many.
(d) Putting a little cow manure in each hole.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has been filled by the evening at Adam's family farm?

2. About what does Mrs. Jervice remind Rowena?

3. What does Rowena tell Sam and Henry?

4. Where does the Epilogue open?

5. What does Henry demand Rowena do?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the three young people turn out?

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

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

4. What does Sam say about Henry's stories?

5. 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?

6. What happens when Adam tries the dowsing stick a few times and what is his mother's response to what he tells her about it?

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

8. What surprises Adam and his mother?

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

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

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