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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does a man bring a box of shortly after Sarah's third child is born?

2. Where did Jack attend college?

3. What does Sarah plan to call her second baby on a regular basis?

4. What does Jack plant for Sarah?

5. What is Sarah's dog injured by?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Sarah is approached by the brother of the man who threatened Melissa?

2. What do Sarah and Mason do the first night he stays in the house with her?

3. What anonymous gift does Sarah receive in the mail?

4. What does Moses Smith try to do to Sarah, and how is he stopped?

5. Why does Jack say he helped Sarah around her house so much just before the 4th of July?

6. What sad news does Savannah hear about Ulyssa after her complicated childbirth?

7. What does Sarah first say Jack proposes, and why?

8. What does Sarah make to sell in town?

9. What happens while Jack is away tracking some train robbers?

10. What does April do when Sarah moves back to the ranch?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Each of Sarah's siblings had very different characteristics and personalities. What are the defining features of each of the siblings, and how did their individuality affect the course of the plot?

Essay Topic 2

How did Sarah mourn for the death of Jimmy, and why did she choose these methods?

Essay Topic 3

Sarah was married twice in her life, and both husbands died while working. Please compare and contrast these two marriages, and how these two deaths affected Sarah.

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