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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Father say Jim and Stacker's legs are like when they're pulling up stumps?
(a) Tractors.
(b) Saws.
(c) Trees.
(d) Pistons.

2. What does Father usually eat before heading to the fields in the morning?
(a) He just has coffee and bread.
(b) Cood food from the night before.
(c) Eggs and toast.
(d) Whatever Mother cooks.

3. What does Uncle David say is the reason there's so much work in the summer?
(a) The crops growing.
(b) The large family.
(c) The light.
(d) The farm.

4. How old is Uncle David?
(a) Sixty-seven.
(b) No one knows.
(c) Eighty.
(d) Seventy-six.

5. Who oils the thrashing machine?
(a) Nels.
(b) Wayne.
(c) Old man Ransen.
(d) Uncle David.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who turns the crank on the cream separator?

2. How many seagulls arrive each summer during plowing season?

3. What are the books Uncle David sometimes reads at the kitchen table at night?

4. What had Wayne once made wings out of in an attempt to fly?

5. What was Mother saying as she rubbed Father's shoulders on the day Eldon sees them behind the barn?

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