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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 was Rose writing about when she visited the Exposition?
(a) The War.
(b) International relations.
(c) The railroad.
(d) Prohibition.

2. What show did Laura go see with Rose at the Fair?
(a) Animal Kingdom.
(b) Exoctic Creatures.
(c) Dogs of all Nations.
(d) Dogs Great and Small.

3. How did Laura feel about the Charlie Chaplin film she saw?
(a) It was funny.
(b) It was offensive.
(c) It was confusing.
(d) It was horrid.

4. Who owed Rose a significant amount of money?
(a) The newspaper.
(b) The real estate company.
(c) Her lawyer.
(d) Her publishers.

5. What did Laura not like about the film about Germans?
(a) The brutality.
(b) The brevity.
(c) The broadness.
(d) The boredom.

Short Answer Questions

1. What about Pelkie was never explained, according to the footnote?

2. What did Laura write her account of the milk condensery on?

3. How many people did the largest theater in the U.S. hold at the time of this book?

4. How did Rose know Pelkie?

5. Why did Laura not spend much time at the Belgian exhibit at the Exposition?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Laura say about her life after seeing how hard Rose worked at her own job?

2. What did Laura assure Almanzo of at the end of her letter about finances?

3. How did Laura describe the fog horns?

4. What did Laura think about the Kreislers?

5. Why did Laura ask her husband to send all further mail to Rose's house?

6. What was the private letter about?

7. What did Laura write about Rolf Pelkie?

8. What did the editor say about Rolf Pelkie in a footnote?

9. What did Kreisler say about the treatment of soldiers in his unit?

10. Why did Laura mark one of her letters as private?

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