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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color is Eldon's house?
(a) Brown.
(b) White.
(c) Red.
(d) Blue.

2. What are the books Uncle David sometimes reads at the kitchen table at night?
(a) No one knows.
(b) A Bible and an encyclopedia.
(c) Western novels.
(d) Old Farmer's Almanacs.

3. Where do the pigs run when they escape from their pen?
(a) Onto the porch.
(b) Across Wayne.
(c) Into the garden.
(d) All over the barn.

4. 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.

5. What is the book both Uncle David and Nels have by their beds?
(a) The Bible.
(b) A diary.
(c) The Complete Works of Shakespeare.
(d) The Farmer's Almanac.

6. What is the name of the lake where the family goes as fall is just starting?
(a) Lake Chicamonga.
(b) Golden Pond.
(c) Jenny's Lake.
(d) Lake Woebegone.

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

8. 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.

9. What are the names of the two horses on the farm?
(a) Jim and Joe.
(b) Stacker and Stumper.
(c) Jim and Stacker.
(d) Matilda and Martha.

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

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

12. How many cleared acres are there on the family's farm?
(a) Ninety.
(b) One hundred twenty.
(c) Forty.
(d) Eighty-seven.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Father say he doesn't shoot the pig?

2. What does Eldon say all the stacks of hay look like in the field?

3. Why does Eldon say he doesn't work as hard as the others in the family?

4. Where was Father sitting when Eldon sees Mother rubbing Father's shoulders?

5. Where do Eldon and Wayne put their mittens to dry?

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