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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Eldon and Wayne sleep on?
(a) The couch.
(b) Bunk beds.
(c) They share a full-sized bed.
(d) Pallets on the floor.

2. Why does the family sometimes not eat supper until after ten in the summer?
(a) It's too hot for Mother to cook until it's dark.
(b) They're often at the lake until dark.
(c) The work takes so long.
(d) No particular reason.

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

4. Who turns the crank on the cream separator?
(a) Papa.
(b) Wayne and Eldon.
(c) Mama.
(d) Uncle David and Nels.

5. According to Eldon, who can eat "like six young men"?
(a) Nels.
(b) Wayne.
(c) Uncle David.
(d) Old man Ransen.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Father say that lets Eldon know it's fall?

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

4. What color is Eldon's house?

5. What is the name carved into a log in the barn?

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