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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Alida and Orud the Terrible.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Eldon say the buildings and machines look like after the first snow?
(a) Animals.
(b) Igloos.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Houses.

2. Why do Mother and Father let Eldon and Wayne jump into the straw pile for hours at a time?
(a) They don't let them jump more than a few times.
(b) To chase all the mice out of the stack.
(c) It's fun.
(d) To pack it down.

3. What are some of the troubles that strike the village after Orud's death?
(a) Poisonous snakes infest the region.
(b) The women are unable to have children.
(c) Locusts arrive.
(d) Their crops fail.

4. What is the name carved into a log in the barn?
(a) Karl.
(b) Nels.
(c) Wayne.
(d) David.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Eldon say he likes better than wax teeth?

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

3. Orud's helmet is soaked in ______________.

4. What do the people of the village believe happens to the boats that sail from their port?

5. What is Uncle David doing the first time he sees Alida?

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