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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 Sarah name her daughter?
(a) July.
(b) June.
(c) May.
(d) April.

2. Who slaughters an Indian village in January?
(a) Some mountain men.
(b) The vigilantes.
(c) Captain Elliot's men.
(d) The Lawrence brothers.

3. What is Sarah doing when Jimmy proposes?
(a) Planning his house.
(b) Writing a letter.
(c) Feeding livestock.
(d) Planting a garden.

4. What does Jimmy have to build on to his house after he and Sarah are married?
(a) A barn.
(b) A milking room.
(c) A sewing room.
(d) A nursery.

5. Where is Ernest being sent to fight the Indians?
(a) Oklahoma.
(b) The Dakotas.
(c) California.
(d) Texas.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Sarah's parents feel after Clover's death?

2. Who does Mother think her courter once fought with?

3. What is the first thing Sarah describes in this book?

4. What awakes Sarah on August 17th?

5. What does Clover die of?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Mother talk to Sarah about before cutting out her new dress in the material from Tuscon?

2. Why does Jimmy Reed not join the family until later?

3. Why does Jimmy get mad after Sarah goes visiting after having a second child?

4. What happens when Sarah finds a mutilated woman on the trail?

5. What happens just as the family gets to San Angelo?

6. What causes the smoke in the wagon that scares Sarah?

7. How does Sarah's mother punish her children, and why?

8. What does Jimmy do just before he dies?

9. What does Sarah say Jimmy spends a lot of time doing after she has the baby?

10. What does Sarah give for Christmas presents while traveling with the wagon train?

(see the answer keys)

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