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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Uncle David say Alida's hair is like?
(a) A horse's mane.
(b) Midnight and good dreams.
(c) Sunset and roses.
(d) Cornsilk and sunlight.

2. How long does it take to get Alen's body back to the camp?
(a) Three days and three nights.
(b) Two days and a night.
(c) Almost a week.
(d) Two and a half hours.

3. What is Uncle David doing the first time he sees Alida?
(a) Sitting on the porch.
(b) Plowing a field.
(c) Cutting a tree.
(d) Sharpening tools.

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

5. What is the final line of Uncle David's story about Crazy Alen?
(a) And everyone laughed.
(b) The end.
(c) And no one ever played a better joke.
(d) And that is the story of Crazy Alen.

6. Where do Eldon and Wayne have a fight a few days after Wayne is angry at Uncle David?
(a) In the horse corral.
(b) In the hayloft.
(c) In the winter room.
(d) In their bedroom.

7. What does Eldon say he has to do after Uncle David splits the log?
(a) Write it down.
(b) Take a nap.
(c) Go to him.
(d) Go tell Father.

8. What is the joke Alen plays on the foreman?
(a) Hides the man's boots.
(b) Sews the man's socks closed.
(c) Blocks the outhouse door with a tree.
(d) Sharpens his saw wrong.

9. What does Wayne ask when the story is finished?
(a) Where the foreman is now.
(b) How Alen knew he was going to die.
(c) How they got Alen into a casket.
(d) He doesn't ask any question.

10. What does Uncle David say happens to spit in the coldest part of winter?
(a) No one knows.
(b) He hisses when it hits the snow.
(c) It freezes in midair.
(d) It bounces.

11. When another man also wants the woman as his wife, how is the argument settled?
(a) Orud and the man fight.
(b) The other men on the ship decide.
(c) The woman chooses.
(d) Orud and the man draw straws.

12. What is Alida carrying the first time David sees her?
(a) A gift.
(b) A towel and loaves of bread.
(c) A jar of milk wrapped in a sheet.
(d) A pot of soup.

13. How does Wayne stop Eldon from leaving the barn?
(a) Asks him not to leave him.
(b) Stands in front of him.
(c) Holds his arm.
(d) Threatens to tell the parents.

14. What is the story Uncle David tells in the winter room that night?
(a) A new story neither boy has heard before.
(b) Only the story of Alida.
(c) He doesn't tell one.
(d) The story of the woodcutter.

15. How does the woman escape from where she's being held?
(a) She slips through the bars.
(b) She climbs through a window.
(c) Another man helps her escape.
(d) She uses magic.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the reaction when Crazy Alen first starts playing jokes on the other men?

2. How old does Uncle David say he was when he heard the story of Orud?

3. What kind of tool does Uncle David say Crazy Alen used to cut trees?

4. How does Uncle David say Alen came from the old country?

5. How long do Eldon and Wayne watch Uncle David?

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