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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 Savannah ask Sarah to teach her?
(a) How to shoot.
(b) How to read.
(c) How to cook.
(d) How to clean a chicken.

2. How old is Harlan at the beginning of the book?
(a) 9.
(b) 12.
(c) 3.
(d) 6.

3. Who talks to Sarah about men and women?
(a) Savannah.
(b) Mother.
(c) Albert.
(d) Captain Elliot.

4. Who goes with Mother to file the land claim?
(a) Albert.
(b) Sarah.
(c) Harlan.
(d) Savannah.

5. Who leaves the settled place with the Captain?
(a) Ernest.
(b) Clover.
(c) Mother.
(d) Harlan.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Savannah's last name?

2. What had one of the slaughterers been doing to Sarah before the event?

3. Which Maldanado child dies of the disease?

4. What is Captain Elliot's first name?

5. What does Sarah yell at a chicken for?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Sarah find on Christmas Day while with the wagon train?

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

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

8. What happens to Sarah and the girls at the river?

9. What does Albert announce shortly after arriving in San Angelo?

10. What does Savannah say about pretty dresses, and how does this make Sarah feel?

(see the answer keys)

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