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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of animal helps himself to the group's food one night but is not identifiable by the group?
(a) Possum.
(b) Raccoon.
(c) Bear.
(d) Squirrel.

2. Some of the people who have come to America have _________________ motives.
(a) financial.
(b) political.
(c) adventurous.
(d) religious.

3. Robert hopes to earn enough money to find a doctor to help with ________________________.
(a) painful back.
(b) skin lesions.
(c) a hearing problem.
(d) swollen joints.

4. How far is Karl's homestead from the town of Taylor Falls?
(a) 2 miles.
(b) 30 miles.
(c) 75 miles.
(d) 9 miles.

5. Who is Karl's younger brother who is also on the trip?
(a) Robert.
(b) Olander.
(c) Steven.
(d) Fiske.

6. What sign is Karl unable to read on the train?
(a) No smoking.
(b) Please hand ticket to porter.
(c) Dining car this way.
(d) Danger! Watch your step.

7. What is Karl Oskar's last name?
(a) Swenson.
(b) Nilsson.
(c) Nyberg.
(d) Johanssen.

8. What is the name of the ship that arrives in Chapter 1?
(a) The Raven.
(b) The Vagabond.
(c) The Charlotta.
(d) The Sentinel.

9. Why are the children disappointed when Karl returns to the ship?
(a) He does not have any milk.
(b) He could not find any books.
(c) He does not have any blankets.
(d) He did not buy any candy.

10. What is the final destination of the group?
(a) Taylor Falls.
(b) Minneapolis.
(c) Greenville.
(d) Racine.

11. What does Fina-Kajas ask her son when she sees him?
(a) Why he never wrote letters.
(b) Why he has grown a beard.
(c) Why he never sent any money.
(d) Why his face is so red.

12. How many children does Danjel have?
(a) 4.
(b) 8.
(c) 3.
(d) 1.

13. Why will Karl and Kristina not allow their children to eat the food on the ship?
(a) They are allergic to it.
(b) It is not fully cooked.
(c) It is moldy.
(d) They think it is tained.

14. How far away from their final destination is the town in #61?
(a) 100 miles.
(b) 5 miles.
(c) 30 miles.
(d) 500 miles.

15. Which of Danjel's children dies on board the steamer ship?
(a) Gunilla.
(b) Eva.
(c) Hanna.
(d) Mia.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the man who Karl Oskar knows who lives in the state in #7?

2. What is one of the items in Kristina's basket which is almost the last of the food for the group?

3. Where does the group disembark from the steamboat in Chapter 9?

4. Danjel notes that he fully expected God to destroy __________________.

5. Karl finds the land he wants by a lake called ____________________.

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