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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Mary Call tell not to listen at the door when Kiser is in with Roy Luther?
(a) Mr. Connell.
(b) Ima Dean.
(c) Devola.
(d) Romey.

2. What does Mary Call lie about during their visit to the store in Chapter 4?
(a) How much money they have.
(b) Her father's health.
(c) Romey's age.
(d) What they need at home.

3. When they get to Roy Luther's grave site, what do Romey and Mary Call discover?
(a) That animals have torn up the site.
(b) Nothing is prepared.
(c) That Roy had prepared long ago before he was sick for his death.
(d) They are in the wrong spot.

4. What is Mary Call's opinion about Roy Luther and wildcrafting?
(a) She tells the children he refused to do it.
(b) She thinks he wasn't good at it.
(c) She secretly thinks he was too proud to do it.
(d) She doesn't know what to think.

5. What does having a witch's keyhole mean, according to the novel?
(a) That you are a worrywart.
(b) That you are very smart.
(c) That you are superstitious and uneducated.
(d) You will have good luck.

6. What does Kiser Pease give Devola in Chapter 7?
(a) A pig.
(b) A ring.
(c) A horse.
(d) A flower.

7. What do the two sisters do for money in the beginning of Chapter 1?
(a) Work at the general store.
(b) Gather witch hazel.
(c) Sell water to travelers.
(d) Gather nuts and berries.

8. What is one thing that is dangerous about the mountains during wildcrafting?
(a) Other wildcrafters.
(b) The poisonous flowers.
(c) The large animals.
(d) The terrain.

9. Where does Mary Call find Cosby Luther's book?
(a) In Roy Luther's room.
(b) At Kiser Pease's house.
(c) In Ima Dean's room.
(d) Outside on the mountain.

10. Who died years before the novel begins?
(a) Devola Luther.
(b) Kiser Pease's mother.
(c) Kiser Pease.
(d) Mary Call's mother.

11. Why does Mary Call decide to help Kiser Pease?
(a) Because she thinks she can make him do something.
(b) Because she is afraid.
(c) Because he once helped her father.
(d) Because she feels bad.

12. Mary Call has promised not to take Roy Luther where after his death?
(a) To the backyard.
(b) To his mother's plot.
(c) To an undertaker.
(d) To the mountain.

13. What is the name of Cosby Luther's book that Mary Call goes to find in Chapter 3?
(a) A Guide to Wildcrafting.
(b) Wildcrafting: A Guide.
(c) Wildcrafting.
(d) Cosby Luther's Guide to Wildcrafting.

14. In Chapter 7, Mary Call contemplates what for the first time in the novel?
(a) Marrying Kiser Pease.
(b) Leaving her siblings to the county and leaving.
(c) Selling the house.
(d) Telling someone her father is dead.

15. Romey says what about the burial on the way back home?
(a) The burial made him angry.
(b) It was not ever going to be good enough.
(c) Mary Call made the wrong choice.
(d) That he thinks it was decent.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the midst of the breakdown, who is attacked by hornets?

2. Who is the oldest sister in the Luther family?

3. Who notices that Roy Luther is not in the house when the children are gone?

4. Who is the owner of the general store?

5. Why does Roy Luther refuse to see a doctor?

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