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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) Red.
(b) Brown.
(c) White.
(d) Blue.

2. What time of day does Father leave for the fields?
(a) Around eight-thirty in the morning.
(b) Just after it gets light.
(c) Around seven in the morning.
(d) Before it gets light.

3. What was Mother saying as she rubbed Father's shoulders on the day Eldon sees them behind the barn?
(a) The days are long, and the nights are short.
(b) I think Eldon is sick again.
(c) Why they are we working so hard.
(d) We should leave the farm because the work is too hard.

4. Where do the pigs run when they escape from their pen?
(a) All over the barn.
(b) Onto the porch.
(c) Across Wayne.
(d) Into the garden.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Eldon and Wayne sleep on?

2. Who was Uncle David married to?

3. What is the book both Uncle David and Nels have by their beds?

4. Where was Father sitting when Eldon sees Mother rubbing Father's shoulders?

5. What does Father say Jim and Stacker's legs are like when they're pulling up stumps?

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