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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Orud?
(a) He jumps in the water and drowns.
(b) His men kill him.
(c) He falls on his sword trying to catch her.
(d) He is killed by the woman.

2. What does the woman do to save herself from marrying Orud?
(a) Agrees to marry another man.
(b) Pleads with women of the village.
(c) Agrees to fight Orud.
(d) Jumps in the water.

3. What do Eldon and Wayne do with the grain shovels the day after the first snowfall?
(a) Slide down the hill.
(b) Shovel a path to the barn.
(c) Move grain for the cows.
(d) Dig holes for storing potatoes.

4. What do the men have to do in the coldest part of winter to keep their axes from breaking?
(a) Pour water on them.
(b) Warm them before using them.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Wear gloves.

5. From where does the straw pile near the barn come?
(a) It's thrown from the hayloft.
(b) It's put there by farmers who don't want it.
(c) The thrashing machine.
(d) It's cut in the fields and brought there on wagons.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Eldon say all the stacks of hay look like in the field?

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

3. Where is the woman held on the way home?

4. What is the final line of Uncle David's story about Crazy Alen?

5. Uncle David says summer is close to fall, and spring is close to summer. To what season is winter close?

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