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

2. Why does Uncle David say the cows get excited when they are given silage?
(a) There is honey mixed with it.
(b) They don't really care.
(c) They are so hungry because it's winter.
(d) They get drunk off of it.

3. How does Eldon describe the sound he hears when Wayne hits the horse?
(a) Like slapping a fly on bare skin.
(b) Like whamming a horse with a kid.
(c) Like hitting a rock with a stick.
(d) Like smacking a potato with a hammer.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is the farm where the family lives?

2. Why is the corn cultivated several times while it's still young?

3. What are the names of the two horses on the farm?

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

5. How are the calves fed?

(see the answer key)

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