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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. How did Rose know Pelkie?
(a) They were neighbors.
(b) They went to church together.
(c) They worked together.
(d) They went to school together.

2. What was the musician Rose wrote about sending all of his money to support?
(a) European artists.
(b) His little sister's family.
(c) Aremenian orphanages.
(d) Wounded soldiers.

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

4. What did Laura say all men have a fondness for?
(a) Water.
(b) Green things.
(c) Sunsets.
(d) Soft breezes.

5. What did Bess like to watch while on Telegraph Hill?
(a) The traffic.
(b) The clouds.
(c) The boats.
(d) The birds.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Laura do after seeing the Exposition?

2. What company owned the milk condensery that Laura toured?

3. What did Gillette focus on while there were no newspaper jobs?

4. What did Laura compare the place Rose wanted her to live to?

5. How much was each gold piece given to Laura in San Francisco worth?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Laura describe the fog horns?

2. What did Gillette promise to do for the Wilders when he got a good job?

3. How did Rose introduce her mother to her friends, and how did Laura respond to this?

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

5. Why did Rose tell her father she would keep her mother away from scones for a while?

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

7. What injury did Laura incur while in San Francisco?

8. What did Laura take time to describe from the wood exhibit at the Fair, and why?

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

10. What happened to make Rose afraid for her mother's safety?

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