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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Alida ask David the first time he sees her?
(a) Where he's from.
(b) His dog's name.
(c) How he's doing.
(d) His name.

2. What does Uncle David do with the two split halves of the log?
(a) Throws them in a ditch so no one can find them.
(b) Puts them in the barn for later use.
(c) Puts them back on the pile.
(d) Takes them to the house for fire wood.

3. Why does David say he and Alida had to put off their planned trip to America?
(a) They were afraid to leave their families.
(b) She was expecting a child.
(c) There were no ships sailing in those days.
(d) They couldn't save enough money.

4. Why does Eldon, Father, and Wayne spend a day splitting and cutting firewood?
(a) A storm is coming.
(b) They always cut firewood on Tuesdays.
(c) A tree fell in the pasture.
(d) A neighbor needed help.

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

6. Where is the woman held on the way home?
(a) In the captain's room.
(b) In a rough cage on the deck.
(c) In the interior of the boat.
(d) On the bow of the boat.

7. What does Alen do with the cabin door just before he dies?
(a) Blocks it with furniture.
(b) Closes it.
(c) Burns it.
(d) Opens it.

8. Who do the people of the village blame for their troubles?
(a) Melena.
(b) Orud.
(c) Neptune.
(d) Venus.

9. How long do Eldon and Wayne watch Uncle David?
(a) Until he's gone inside.
(b) Until he sits down on the porch.
(c) For about twenty minutes.
(d) Until he rounds the corner of the barn.

10. What do people think when they see Alen's body on the way to town?
(a) He's waving at them.
(b) He's dead.
(c) He fell and started rolling.
(d) The foreman killed him.

11. Why does Mother take a breath when Uncle David finishes the story of Crazy Alen?
(a) She has a cold.
(b) She's been holding her breath.
(c) She's trying not to cry.
(d) She'd been lulled to sleep by the story.

12. What is the second story Uncle David tells that night?
(a) The story of Alida.
(b) The story of a terrible Viking.
(c) The story of an ugly man who loved a girl.
(d) The story of a woodcutter.

13. With what does Uncle David say the young woodcutter used to shave?
(a) A straight razor.
(b) A small sawblade.
(c) Nothing.
(d) An ax.

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

15. What kind of tool does Uncle David say Crazy Alen used to cut trees?
(a) A chain saw.
(b) A crosscut saw.
(c) A bucksaw.
(d) An ax.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Wayne say when the axes meet in the middle of the log?

2. What is Wayne's reaction when Father says that the young woodcutter is really Uncle David?

3. What is the foreman's reaction to the joke?

4. Where do Eldon and Wayne have a fight a few days after Wayne is angry at Uncle David?

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

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