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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is used to cover the table outside during the gathering at thrashing time?
(a) An old blanket.
(b) Sacks.
(c) Sheets.
(d) Checked material.

2. What are the books Uncle David sometimes reads at the kitchen table at night?
(a) Western novels.
(b) A Bible and an encyclopedia.
(c) Old Farmer's Almanacs.
(d) No one knows.

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

4. What does Eldon say he likes better than wax teeth?
(a) Coca-cola and peanuts.
(b) Fudge.
(c) Peanut butter.
(d) Nothing.

5. How many cleared acres are there on the family's farm?
(a) Ninety.
(b) Forty.
(c) One hundred twenty.
(d) Eighty-seven.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Eldon, who can eat "like six young men"?

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

3. Who was Uncle David married to?

4. What is upstairs in the barn?

5. What grade does Mrs. Halverson teach?

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