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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What surprises Savannah about Sarah?
(a) She doesn't like boys.
(b) She doesn't want to get married.
(c) She wants to be educated.
(d) She doesn't talk to her mother.

2. What does Sarah say is incredible about her new house with Jimmy?
(a) The hen house.
(b) The kitchen.
(c) The bed.
(d) The front porch.

3. Who does Sarah want to take care of her horse when she is sick?
(a) Harlan.
(b) Clover.
(c) Ernest.
(d) Mother.

4. Who did Mother's courter once fight with?
(a) The Tories.
(b) The Revolutionsits.
(c) The Confederacy.
(d) The Union.

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

6. Why is the man who performs Albert's marriage ceremony chosen?
(a) There is no charge to use him.
(b) There is nobody else.
(c) He is a neutral party.
(d) He is Albert's father's friend.

7. Why does Sarah misspell her sickness?
(a) That is how the doctor spelled it.
(b) She prefers her own spelling of the word.
(c) She has never seen it written.
(d) She can't find it in the dictionary.

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

9. What is the name of the horse Sarah breaks in?
(a) Rose.
(b) Daisy.
(c) Violet.
(d) Petunia.

10. What does Harlan think his mother might do someday?
(a) Thank Sarah.
(b) Die.
(c) Come to her senses.
(d) Marry again.

11. What creek does the family settle by?
(a) Cierra.
(b) Cayenne.
(c) Cienega.
(d) Cayman.

12. Which Maldanado child dies of the disease?
(a) Toto.
(b) Popo.
(c) Gogo.
(d) Yoyo.

13. How old is Ernest when he loses a leg?
(a) 19.
(b) 17.
(c) 16.
(d) 18.

14. What does Sarah call the Mormon women in the wagon train?
(a) Strange.
(b) Addled.
(c) Desperate.
(d) Pretty.

15. How many women are married to the Mormon man in the wagon train?
(a) 6.
(b) 5.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Sarah draw on the ground of their land?

2. How are Albert and Sarah related?

3. What does Savannah name her baby boy?

4. What does Savannah ask Sarah to teach her?

5. What wedding gift do the Maldanados give Sarah and Jimmy?

(see the answer keys)

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