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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From where does the straw pile near the barn come?
(a) It's thrown from the hayloft.
(b) It's cut in the fields and brought there on wagons.
(c) It's put there by farmers who don't want it.
(d) The thrashing machine.

2. What does Father usually eat before heading to the fields in the morning?
(a) He just has coffee and bread.
(b) Cood food from the night before.
(c) Eggs and toast.
(d) Whatever Mother cooks.

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

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

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

6. What does Eldon say there is to do on the morning after the first snowfall?
(a) Shoveling a path to the barn.
(b) Cutting a Christmas tree.
(c) A million snow things.
(d) Moving all the cows inside.

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

8. How does Mother keep coffee hot when she takes it for Father's lunch?
(a) She wraps a jar in sacking.
(b) She doesn't, he likes it cold.
(c) She builds a campfire near the field to warm it.
(d) She puts it in a thermos.

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

10. What is upstairs in the barn?
(a) Nothing but dust.
(b) The hayloft.
(c) Storage for grain.
(d) Saddles and farming equipment.

11. What is the name of the family's dog?
(a) Trudy.
(b) Fred.
(c) Rover.
(d) Rex.

12. What does Uncle David say is the reason there's so much work in the summer?
(a) The farm.
(b) The crops growing.
(c) The light.
(d) The large family.

13. What kind of shoes is Eldon wearing on the morning he slipped outside to watch Father leaving for the fields?
(a) Bedroom slippers.
(b) Tennis shoes.
(c) Rubber boots.
(d) He wasn't wearing any.

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

15. What was Wayne's injury from that fight in "Winter?"
(a) several bruises.
(b) A bloody nose.
(c) A black eye.
(d) A swollen ear.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long does Mother stay at the quilting bee at the end of fall?

2. What are the books Uncle David sometimes reads at the kitchen table at night?

3. What is it about going to town that Eldon likes best?

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

5. What do Eldon and Wayne sleep on?

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