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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Alida and Orud the Terrible.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When another man also wants the woman as his wife, how is the argument settled?
(a) The woman chooses.
(b) Orud and the man fight.
(c) The other men on the ship decide.
(d) Orud and the man draw straws.

2. Where is Alida taking what she's carrying the first time David sees her?
(a) To a child having a birthday.
(b) To the woods.
(c) To a sick neighbor.
(d) To a woman who has just had a baby.

3. How many cleared acres are there on the family's farm?
(a) Forty.
(b) Ninety.
(c) One hundred twenty.
(d) Eighty-seven.

4. What does Eldon say there is to do on the morning after the first snowfall?
(a) Moving all the cows inside.
(b) Cutting a Christmas tree.
(c) A million snow things.
(d) Shoveling a path to the barn.

5. How many seagulls arrive each summer during plowing season?
(a) Maybe twenty or thirty.
(b) About a dozen.
(c) Only a few.
(d) Hundreds.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the second story Uncle David always tells in the winter room?

2. What was Wayne's injury from that fight in "Winter?"

3. What happens to Orud?

4. Why does David say he and Alida had to put off their planned trip to America?

5. What do Uncle David and Nels do that makes Eldon think they don't like the killing either?

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