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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long after Alen dies does the foreman come to the cabin?
(a) Almost a month.
(b) Four days.
(c) A few hours.
(d) A week and a half.

2. What was Mother saying as she rubbed Father's shoulders on the day Eldon sees them behind the barn?
(a) We should leave the farm because the work is too hard.
(b) I think Eldon is sick again.
(c) Why they are we working so hard.
(d) The days are long, and the nights are short.

3. Why does the blacksmith have to sharpen the plows every summer?
(a) The plows rust over the winter months.
(b) It's the only time Uncle David goes to town.
(c) The rocky land dulls the blades.
(d) The plows get dull from being used on frozen ground.

4. What does Uncle David do with the axes immediately after splitting the log?
(a) Sharpens them.
(b) Puts them on the ground.
(c) Puts them in another log.
(d) Puts one on each shoulder.

5. How much does Father say the horses weigh?
(a) He doesn't say.
(b) A couple of hundred pounds each.
(c) Close to a hundred pounds each.
(d) Close to a ton each.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Wayne and Eldon throw snowballs at when they make snow forts?

2. Where does Father keep the .22 rifle?

3. What do people think when they see Alen's body on the way to town?

4. In "Winter," Eldon says that he and Wayne have a fight. What was Eldon's injury from that fight?

5. What does Wayne ask when the story is finished?

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