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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Uncle David says summer is close to fall, and spring is close to summer. To what season is winter close?
(a) None, winter stands alone.
(b) Spring.
(c) Fall.
(d) Summer.

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

3. Who oils the thrashing machine?
(a) Wayne.
(b) Uncle David.
(c) Nels.
(d) Old man Ransen.

4. Where does Eldon and his family live?
(a) Southern Mississippi.
(b) Northern Minnesota.
(c) Eastern Montana.
(d) Western Idaho.

5. Why do the men have to wear handkerchiefs over their noses during thrashing time?
(a) They want to keep cool.
(b) They're playing a game.
(c) It is a tradition.
(d) There is dust.

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes Wayne's injury?

2. What is upstairs in the barn?

3. Where do the pigs run when they escape from their pen?

4. What was the name of the hero's horse in the western they found?

5. Why do Wayne and Eldon jump on the stacks of hay after it's cut?

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