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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 Karl spend most of his time doing?
(a) Building the house.
(b) Making new friends.
(c) Plowing the field.
(d) Cutting down trees.

2. Why is the Indian in the tree?
(a) He is a lookout.
(b) He is dead and secured there until the ground thaws for burial.
(c) He is a runaway.
(d) He has a good vantage point for hunting.

3. What does the traveler buy from Karl?
(a) Rifle.
(b) Potatoes.
(c) Milk.
(d) Fodder.

4. At whose house does Karl stop on the way home from the post office?
(a) Anders.
(b) Danjel's.
(c) Lindberg's.
(d) Charles'.

5. What is the only piece of furniture in the shanty?
(a) A bed.
(b) The chest.
(c) A table.
(d) A chair.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many windows does Karl buy for the house he is building for his family?

2. When it snows, Karl makes a rope of ________________ to tie between the house and the shed.

3. Which food has Danjel offered to share with Karl and Kristina's family?

4. How long does it take Karl and the other men to build Karl's house?

5. Robert believes that the sounds he hears in the bushes is __________________.

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain why money is such a source of tension between Karl and Kristina.

2. What precautions does Karl take for the family after Robert's experience with the Indian in the woods?

3. How does Robert convince Karl that he can take care of himself?

4. Who loans Karl a cow for the winter, and why is the loan such a blessing to the family?

5. What do Karl and Kristina do for Robert and his trip?

6. Why is Kristina so melancholy as she unpacks the trunk?

7. What motivates Karl to work even harder on the new cabin, with whose help does it get accomplished, and how is the home celebrated?

8. Why can't Karl pick up the letter that has arrived from Sweden?

9. What does Karl produce that allows him to make a little bit of money?

10. How do Karl and Kristina view the letter from Sweden differently?

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