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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the blizzard do to the Luther's food?

2. Who is happy to see the Luthers when they register for school?

3. What makes the person sharing a room with a cow worry about sharing a room?

4. Who scolds Romey in Chapter 8?

5. Why is Mary Call frustrated with herself after Goldie leaves?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do you think Mary Call's worries are mostly gone?

2. Explain what the coming of the early spring could symbolize for the Luther family and what it means when it is quickly taken away.

3. How is Goldie able to take the house from the Luthers?

4. How does everyone react to the roof issue?

5. Why doesn't Mary Call want Devola to marry Kiser Pease?

6. Why do you think Mary Call refuses Kiser's offer of money?

7. Explain why Mary Call is worried when Kiser takes Devola off to get her license.

8. How does Devola remind Mary Call of Cosby Luther in this chapter, and how does she respond to it?

9. How does Mary Call view education?

10. How is the Thanksgiving dinner and their situation in general wearing on Mary Call in this chapter?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How is Roy Luther an example of the price of pride? What does it mean in relation to Kiser's warning about the price of freedom?

Essay Topic 2

Why is Mary Call both sad and proud when Romey, at age 10, goes out into the fields and acts like a man of the house? Explore their relationship to their father in your answer.

Essay Topic 3

Describe Roy Luther's burial and how it turned out exactly as he wished. Be sure to note the promises that didn't turn out.

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