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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Mother think her courter once fought with?
(a) The Revolutionsits.
(b) The Tories.
(c) The Confederacy.
(d) The Union.

2. What does Sarah write when she falls ill?
(a) A poem.
(b) Her will.
(c) Letters.
(d) The beginning of her journal.

3. What is Sarah's middle name?
(a) Althea.
(b) Angel.
(c) Agnes.
(d) Angela.

4. What wedding gift do the Maldanados give Sarah and Jimmy?
(a) A pig.
(b) A hen.
(c) A calf.
(d) A cat.

5. What does Sarah draw on the ground of their land?
(a) Stories.
(b) Mazes.
(c) House plans.
(d) Fun designs.

6. What do the people in the wagon train notice every morning?
(a) They say it is getting longer.
(b) The sun comes up earlier.
(c) It is getting colder.
(d) Something new is missing.

7. Where do claims for land have to be filed?
(a) Phoenix.
(b) Tuscon.
(c) Snowflake.
(d) Mesa.

8. Why does Ernest want to join the military?
(a) He wants to fight Indians.
(b) He wants to make his father proud.
(c) He wants to make some money.
(d) He wants to pay for his schooling.

9. What had one of the slaughterers been doing to Sarah before the event?
(a) Talking in low voices.
(b) Making eyes at her.
(c) Staying drunk all the time.
(d) Whittling a sharp knife.

10. What happens to Ulyssa when she is sent to fetch water?
(a) She is kidnapped.
(b) She is beaten.
(c) She is raped.
(d) She is killed.

11. What does Jimmy want Sarah to keep records of?
(a) The foals born.
(b) The eggs they sell.
(c) Their finances.
(d) Her cycles.

12. Why does the family settle by a certain creek?
(a) They are tired of traveling.
(b) Sarah thinks it looks like a place her father would love.
(c) Mother had dreamed that place.
(d) They think their trees will grow well there.

13. What is Sarah's last name?
(a) Pine.
(b) Pirne.
(c) Pire.
(d) Prine.

14. Who kills the men who hurt Ulyssa when she was fetching water?
(a) Sarah.
(b) Savannah.
(c) Albert.
(d) Ernest.

15. What wedding gift does Albert give Sarah and Jimmy?
(a) Wagon axle grease.
(b) A rifle set.
(c) Kerosene lamps.
(d) Bearskins.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Ernest lose a leg?

2. Who did Mother's courter once fight with?

3. Why does Sarah plan to hide her dogs from the men?

4. What is Captain Elliot's first name?

5. How old is Ernest when he loses a leg?

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