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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Summer.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color is Eldon's house?
(a) Brown.
(b) Blue.
(c) Red.
(d) White.

2. How old is the farm where the family lives?
(a) About twenty years.
(b) No one knows.
(c) The same age as Uncle David.
(d) At least a hundred.

3. What does Eldon say makes the seagulls less pretty?
(a) They fight for the worms.
(b) They poop too much.
(c) There are so many of them.
(d) They are bedraggled from the long flight.

4. Why is the corn cultivated several times while it's still young?
(a) So Father will have something to do.
(b) To loosen the soil around the roots of the corn.
(c) So the weeds don't get a start.
(d) To work the fertilizer deeper into the soil.

5. Why does the family sometimes not eat supper until after ten in the summer?
(a) It's too hot for Mother to cook until it's dark.
(b) They're often at the lake until dark.
(c) No particular reason.
(d) The work takes so long.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Wayne want to do when he grows up?

2. What is Eldon supposed to do while Wayne jumps from the hayloft onto the horse's back?

3. How many people are in Eldon's family?

4. Why do Wayne and Eldon jump on the stacks of hay after it's cut?

5. Who turns the crank on the cream separator?

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