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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Eldon say the silo is filled with corn?
(a) For food during the winter.
(b) For feeding the cows.
(c) For seed the coming spring.
(d) For marketing.

2. Why does Uncle David say the cows get excited when they are given silage?
(a) They don't really care.
(b) They are so hungry because it's winter.
(c) There is honey mixed with it.
(d) They get drunk off of it.

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

4. What do Wayne and Eldon throw snowballs at when they make snow forts?
(a) The chickens.
(b) The cats.
(c) The dog, the chickens, and the cats.
(d) The dog.

5. 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) The work takes so long.
(c) No particular reason.
(d) They're often at the lake until dark.

6. Why does the family butcher two geese every year?
(a) To save for Thanksgiving dinner.
(b) To save for Christmas dinner.
(c) To make new pillows.
(d) To restuff the feather mattresses.

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

8. What is Eldon supposed to do while Wayne jumps from the hayloft onto the horse's back?
(a) Run away, yelling that the posse is coming.
(b) Take photos.
(c) Hold the horse.
(d) Run toward Wayne, yelling at him to stop.

9. What do Eldon and Wayne do with the grain shovels the day after the first snowfall?
(a) Dig holes for storing potatoes.
(b) Slide down the hill.
(c) Shovel a path to the barn.
(d) Move grain for the cows.

10. Where does the family dog sleep as fall comes to an end?
(a) In the barn.
(b) In the kitchen.
(c) Under the porch.
(d) In Wayne's room.

11. According to Eldon, what can be caught in the water trough where everyone washes up for dinner during thrashing time?
(a) Tadpoles.
(b) Perch.
(c) Spiders.
(d) A cold.

12. What is the first animal to be killed each fall?
(a) Geese.
(b) A steer.
(c) Chickens.
(d) A pig.

13. Why do Wayne and Eldon jump on the stacks of hay after it's cut?
(a) To pack it down.
(b) To make sure water can't seep into it.
(c) It's fun.
(d) To be sure there aren't any animals hiding in the stacks.

14. Who washes the cream separator?
(a) Father.
(b) Mother.
(c) Wayne and Eldon.
(d) Nels.

15. What was the name of the hero's horse in the western they found?
(a) Trigger.
(b) Stacker.
(c) Black Ranger.
(d) White Lightning.

Short Answer Questions

1. From where does the straw pile near the barn come?

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

3. How are the calves fed?

4. How old is the farm where the family lives?

5. What does Eldon say the buildings and machines look like after the first snow?

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