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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. Why does Sarah stay the night at Jimmy's house after telling him of the baby?
(a) A storm comes on.
(b) A strange man comes to visit.
(c) It gets too dark.
(d) All of these.

2. Why does a doctor refuse to amputate Clover's arm?
(a) He does not have the tools.
(b) Clover begs them to not let him.
(c) It would kill Clover.
(d) It is too late.

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

4. What is Savannah doing when she announces that she is pregnant?
(a) Cooking.
(b) Washing up.
(c) Singing to the family.
(d) Holding a neighbor's baby.

5. What page number of a story does Sarah find?
(a) 87.
(b) 77.
(c) 67.
(d) 57.

Short Answer Questions

1. What meal does Jimmy make for Sarah when she comes to tell him about the baby?

2. What awakes Sarah on August 17th?

3. What does Savannah ask Sarah to teach her?

4. How are Albert and Sarah related?

5. What is Sarah's middle name?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Jimmy die?

2. What does Sarah do when she is killing a chicken?

3. What does Sarah say about her baby on her first Christmas?

4. What does Jimmy do just before he dies?

5. What has someone been doing to help ease Sarah's burdens while with the wagon train?

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

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

8. What happens to Rose, and how does Sarah respond to this?

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

10. How does Sarah feel when Ernest and Captain Elliot leave the family?

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